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Originally Posted by rayne008
Admittedly I'm pretty ignorant on such things, but the big draw I see for a stadium/field house combo is having a facility that has the flexibly to host many different events throughout the year resulting in very few dark nights. CFL / Track & Field / Soccer / Major concerts / Monster Trucks. Field house part still very active for amateur sports during the day.
I think that is the partnership CSEC should pursue rather than trying for the grand slam of tacking the event centre/arena on it.
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I think you're wildly over-estimated the amount of events you'd have there if you think they'd have very few dark nights. The Rogers Centre hosts 3 or 4 events a year outside of Jays games and most of those are just because the ACC has two major teams using it (I assume both Calgary and Toronto would just force the lower tier teams using the place to go on the road for events) so they can't hold events that need the arena for 4-5 days like Monster Trucks or Disney on Ice at the arena.
I'm not sure that's a big negative though - I assume if you're building a fieldhouse you want it open to be used the majority of the time for its main purpose (huge concerts would shut it down for two days, Monster Trucks would be 4-5 days when factoring in set-up).