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Originally Posted by Oilkountry
The issues with commonwealth
-Too big both in footprint and seating
-Lacks modern amenities
-Terrible sightlines
Knocking down 1 side of commonwealth and Completely renovating the existing side is the only option if they truly want to fix all those problems at once. Building a New side gives you a chance to modernize the Stadium, Party decks, Proper suites, Loge seats. It gives you a chance to move the field of play closer to the existing stands, And gives you a chance to drastically reduce capacity If commonwealth is 54,000 seats in its current form, One would imagine each side is around 24,500 seats (Give or take, assuming endzone seats 5000ish) So you build the other side and redesigned endzone with 10,000- 12,000 seats (Tall side of THF), You instantly have a Mosaic and IGF level stadium that exceeds the elks and the cities needs for a similar price. I'm assuming 275-300M depending on the demo cost.
I know you guys hated the levy's stadium concept but I found a better example of what i'm referring to. They are currently doing a 300 million dollar renovation to memorial stadium in kansas city that faces largely the same issues as commonwealth, So think about a slightly scaled down version of this
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I have been lurking on this website for a long time, like years, but never posted. So take me with a grain of salt. But the idea to dmolish one side makes total sense. What i would do is the side that will stay, move the field over 5meters closer, and i would rip out all the the north endzone seats, put bleachers in temporarily for a year. Then rip down the other grandstand completely, but keep the other infrastructure that has the concessions etc...
Build that grandstand, with however many seats, 12k-15k. then tie it in to that infrastructure and the rec centre to the south. Then on the north side i would create something similar to regina Pil Country, make the concourse on the north side wider and create that "Party Zone" atmosphere that younger people tend to like. Now on the existing grandstand, you either renovate it completely, wider seats, remove the top 30 rows and create boxes, or remove and mirror the new side. tie it in to the existing infrastructure and then you have a 32-35k stadium. Perfect size for edmonton. Once the team gets better, fans will come back, but not to 50k like the past. but the 35k will not limit the concerts that come once in a while, although being smaller, those may then go elsewhere.
Just my thoughts as a years long lurker. ha
and to add, i think its dumb not using the upper bowl next year, what they should have done is got rid of all the end zone seating, minus the lawn furniture suites. and just sold in between the goal lines and the first 10-15 rows of the upper bowl.
Those use the same concourse so its not really a matter of staffing per se. it would just tighten it up a bit.
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