Quebec to spend $870m on new Olympic Stadium roof

[dammage79]

There's been talk of the expos returning. Maybe this is the cheapest way to bring em back. Or at least a staged process to get the Big O modernized. I love that stadium. I fell in love with the expos and watched many games there as a kid in the 80s.

Yeah it needs love but if done correctly, it can become iconic

[Jason14h]

So Albertans are paying for 2 stadiums now ??

[browna]

Originally Posted by Jason14h

So Albertans are paying for 2 stadiums now ??

Not yet, but as with most things in Montreal for any infrastructure or public buildings, cost overruns early in the project will force the province to claim there's no more money and the Feds will have to step in, and then we will be paying for it. It's not even really a secret, it's just the way Quebec rolls as a "have not" province.

But yes, that money would be better utilized as part of a new baseball and or football venue downtown. Who is going to use it? Saputo has his own stadium, as do the Als, though anyone criticizing McMahon needs to step foot in that decrepit McGill stadium (though as an out of province person, you have to pay more now).

[Erick Estrada]

I suppose the could host more Grey Cups.

[Cowboy89]

Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout

The issue is the infrastructure that it's built on.

$870million to fix it, $2 billion to take it down.

Not really a hard choice.

I know there's a lot of infrastructure around there including the Olympic diving & swimming pools, biodome, metro, etc. but seriously $2 billion in demo costs? Who provided that estimate, the Rizzuto Family?

[Maritime Q-Scout]

I think it has to do with the metro line running under it, and whatever utilities are there.

They can't simply just implode the place.

Mind you I'm no engineer, it's entirely possible the estimate was indeed by the Rizzuto Family for all I know :P

[Sidney Crosby's Hat]

The crazy thing is that's more money than the city of St. Petersburg is putting into their brand new baseball stadium ($600 million).

[getbak]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1754870054548623506

[iggy_oi]

Originally Posted by Jason14h

So Albertans are paying for 2 stadiums now ??

Yes one in Edmonton and the other in Calgary.

[Swift]

Originally Posted by topfiverecords

Good synergy to find a meme where he's wearing the Olympic dome on his head too.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1754524828571496686

[Sylvanfan]

"Other unforeseen factors"

I wonder what that could be. Get a lot of competition from Quebec steel companies that undercut the holy eff out of the market to do work outside Quebec. But if anyone from outside the province dares do work inside Quebec...watch out!

This is just so absurd. Maybe if you can repurpose that colossal mistake to be anything but a stadium you could salvage it. But this money so that Taylor Swift or Bruce Springsteen might come there is nuts.

[Fuzz]

I've got an idea to save them some money. Cut the lines holding the white bits up. Remove white bits from stadium. That's about it, actually.

[looooob]

Originally Posted by browna

Not yet, but as with most things in Montreal for any infrastructure or public buildings, cost overruns early in the project will force the province to claim there's no more money and the Feds will have to step in, and then we will be paying for it. It's not even really a secret, it's just the way Quebec rolls as a "have not" province.

But yes, that money would be better utilized as part of a new baseball and or football venue downtown. Who is going to use it? Saputo has his own stadium, as do the Als, though anyone criticizing McMahon needs to step foot in that decrepit McGill stadium (though as an out of province person, you have to pay more now).

ok now you are really getting personal...(as a McGill football 'season ticket' holder for 4 years in the late 80s when that thing was actually crumbling like the roman coliseum!

[bluejays]

I didn’t know about the history of the cost of the stadium or even see it as an engineering marvel growing up. Like everyone in Toronto I’ve been to Montreal dozens of times and have seen the outside of it, and like a lot of Montreal until more recently it seemed like it was in a run down area (or dated at the least) so even passing by you don’t pay that much attention. Plus inside during the Expos days seemed like a very dated structure internally. That all said, from this thread and looking at the picture it does look damn nice on the outside. The cost is absurd. Why not keep it an open stadium and renovate the internal for that cost? MLB instant ready in that case.

[btimbit]

Originally Posted by Sylvanfan

"Other unforeseen factors"

I wonder what that could be. Get a lot of competition from Quebec steel companies that undercut the holy eff out of the market to do work outside Quebec. But if anyone from outside the province dares do work inside Quebec...watch out!

Don't forget that since it's Montreal, most of this money is for the mob

[Bigtime]

Originally Posted by btimbit

Don't forget that since it's Montreal, most of this money is for the mob

Bene, molto bene.

[White Out 403]

Montreal is a beautiful city with amazing food and history run by the biggest group of lunatics in the world

[Titan2]

Originally Posted by Locke

Theres an 'Equalization Payments' joke to be made here but I'm leaving it.

Joke? There is a comment to be made but it is not funny.

They better call it the 'Berta Dome.

[Bill Bumface]

It seems they should spend more time on this in the Junior High curriculum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equali...ents_in_Canada

[Iggy_12]

Isnt there like swimming pools and stuff in there? Is there still a baseball field?