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Originally Posted by elly63
You sure have enough time to waste here now.
As for never having renovations:
McMahon Stadium was expanded multiple times, first in 1967 with 2,600 seats for a capacity of 22,136, then in 1973 adding 3,500 seats to 25,636, and in 1975 with a $1.125-million expansion to 32,454 in time for the 63rd Grey Cup.
Additional expansions occurred in 1978 at a cost of $4.5 million to 33,386, and in 1987 saw major expansion and upgrades at a cost of $17 million with 11,000 theatre-style seats added with capacity raised to 38,205.
Skyboxes were added in 1993, lowering capacity to 37,211, with more skyboxes added in 2000 to lower capacity again to 35,967 |
I would not really call sky boxes "major renovations. Ditto for expanding the stadium nearly 40 years ago. Judging by your posting history, you have a fondness for McMahon Stadium perhaps you are a Calgary resident?), but it is, by far, the worst CFL venue in Canada, and it's way past it's shelf life.
Ideally they should have replaced it 15 years ago, and razed it to the ground long ago, like they did with some of the seedy hotels in Motel Village across the Crowchild.