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Originally Posted by grumpy old man
Sorry for replying so late. I guess I missed your post.
I think you'd be making a mistake comparing the two stadia. A 40,000~ seat domed stadium vs. a 30,000 seat open air stadium is a vastly different engineering feat. And hugely more costlier.
Do note the Fargodome cost $US48 million to build almost twenty years ago on land that was pretty much free. It seats 19,000 for US football games. The CFL field is much bigger.
So if we use a US dollar exchange rate of 20% and a three percent annual inflation rate it would cost more than $104 million dollars to build that stadium today. That ignores the much higher construction costs of today. And you end up with a very plain, vanilla grey box.
To build the Canadian equivalent today but with 40,000 (or 35k or 30k) seats and a much larger field, and expandable to accommodate a Grey Cup every 8 years... Will $350 million do it?
Please note I never said cheaping out or half assed. I did say bare-boned.
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Well maybe you should look around the world and see what is being built currently and for what pricetag...
There is a stadium being built in Stockholm, certainly not "bare-boned" as you like to call it. The retractable roof stadium has a 50,000 capacity and comes with a cost of 170m Euro which is about 270 mil Cdn.
attaching a new stadium with a brand new hotel(who have already been in contact with the gov't about the potential for doing something like this, also condo developers), restaurants, and the potential to join it with the downtown casino are all very exciting options.