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Originally Posted by getbak
My hope for the Saddledome land is an amphitheater to be a permanent replacement for the Coke Stage with covered seats for a few thousand and a large lawn beyond that can fill up for the bigger shows.
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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
That’d be great. My first thought was the Hollywood Bowl but had a bit of pause thinking how it’d basically be shut down for half the year due to weather here, but then places like the Budweiser Stage in Toronto make it work, so it could definitely work here.
That’d be a way better setup for Coke Stage and would give a really cool venue option outside of Stampede (and probably take some things away from Princess Island Park, which is fine honestly).
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Only reason I don't see it happening is the Coke stage is for free Stampede concerts. They pay the $50k-$100k appearance fee for the artists/band and their only revenue is whatever people paid to come into Stampede that day that wouldn't have been there if that band wasn't playing.
So then they'd have to have a bunch of non Stampede shows during the rest of the short summer months to justify the tens of millions (possibly more?) to build a modern amphitheater with thousands of seats.