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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
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Three different sized playing surfaces requiring three different seating configurations. The dislike of FieldTurf would severely limit the appeal for soccer. The high roof required for baseball would make the hockey atmosphere as boring as possible. The costs of operating and maintaining the ever-changing seating setup would push the operating costs higher. You'd have 15-20,000 empty seats for the Hitmen and Roughnecks making those games incredibly unpleasant to be at (so you'd move them to the adjacent arena, taking away two of your key tenants or operate a 30,000 seat venue at half-capacity). The 10,000 seats you've built in the upper deck would be the most expensive to build and not bring you anything until the playoffs for your most in-demand team and provide the least amount of revenue for the 9 or 10 Stampeders games. This doesn't even touch on the initial construction costs being through the retractable roof. Etc.