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Originally Posted by craigwd
No I was referring to the design concepts KK presented in the STH meeting.
Kind of like the ones on the NEXT website. He pointed to the area without seating and said "these are gymnasiums". Like I said, the bowl isn't 360 yet, but that's probably where extra temp seating would go. In front of the gyms.
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That's one rendering. Here are a couple of others that look quite different and already have some seating in the east end zone, with reduced seating on the north side...
Either way, the question still remains. If they're adding 20,000 temporary seats to the building for a Grey Cup, where will they fit, how long will they take to install/uninstall, and how much of the fieldhouse will be unusable during that time?
Here's a timelapse video of the stadium in Arizona. Because they have the sliding field that must spend most of its time outside in the sun, they only roll it inside about 2 days before a game. They have temporary seats that are designed to be installed in less than 48 hours, so they can start installation after the field has been moved in and still have the seats ready for game time.
This is only about 8,800 seats. CalgaryNext would require more than twice as many temporary seats. That's why I'm curious what the plan is.
The Stamps may only host the Grey Cup every 9 years or so (probably more frequently if they move into a covered building, especially if SkyDome won't be used for Grey Cups -- and I don't know what the plan for that is with the Argos moving out), but if adding in 20,000 additional seats means that a significant amount of the fieldhouse will be off-limits, I don't consider that a good thing (and I say that as someone who would only likely ever visit the fieldhouse to attend a Stamps game).