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Old 01-29-2013, 01:08 PM   #319
Dr. Pepper
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Originally Posted by getbak View Post
There's this arena in Japan where they move a giant block of seats, along with the concourse and everything else to change the size and configuration of the building: http://www.saitama-arena.co.jp/e/facility.html

I'm sure it would be cheaper to build two purpose-built buildings than it would be to try to make something like that work.
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Originally Posted by SebC View Post
According to wikipedia, it cost 20 billion yen in 2000, which is about 300 million CAD today. We can have two of these for the price of Edmonton's arena?
That's bloody brilliant - but I'm not sure our officials are cool enough / forward thinking enough to even consider it.

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