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Originally Posted by rayne008
Are there examples of outdoor stadium / separate arena sites around? Would the site 2 blocks north of the current dome have a big enough footprint to support this?
Moving the football stadium to that site would allow for outdoor concerts and events that the university area could never accommodate.
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There are a few cities (Vancouver, Phoenix, Philadelphia, and others) where the hockey arena is within walking distance of the football stadium, but none actually share facilities.
The only one I can think of where an arena and stadium share a footprint is in Ottawa, where the north grandstand of the football stadium is built on top of the old arena (not Scotiabank Place, but the Civic Centre where the Sens played their first couple of seasons and where the 67s play):
http://goo.gl/maps/vKiBI
The area north of the Saddledome would be large enough for both an arena and stadium. I made this a few months ago...
The smaller grey area is the footprint of the Jobing.com Arena, and the larger one is the footprint of the football stadium at the University of Connecticut (
http://goo.gl/maps/6GcSP). The stadium holds 40,000, so I figured it was an appropriate size and shape of what we could expect from a McMahon replacement.
Some people have mentioned that Calgary Transit wants to close the transit garage on the east side there, so if that were to happen, there would be lots of room for an arena, stadium, and other developments.