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Originally Posted by azzarish
What's McMahon's capacity? Close to 40,000? But the fieldhouse would support 30,000. Am I the only one that find's that a bit strange?
Surely, you would increase the capacity or get to close to whatever McMahon currently supports. So, if the stadium is MLS ready now (even though it wouldn't be sustainable in today's Calgary market) it would still only hold 30,000. If we're going full out with a state of the art facility why not have more seats?
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Empty seats are a waste of money. The trend in pretty much all sports is smaller, more intimate, reduce supply to increase demand. Where they used to build 50k baseball stadiums, we now see 35-40k. CFL stadiums are being built in the 25-30k range. NHL rinks are coming in around 18k.