BC Place: Stadium Refurbishment | Completed - Page 236

officedweller · #**4701** Posted **Feb 9, 2012, 10:10 PM**

Yeah - it would have been almost a year ago - before most of our roof went on.
Interesting on how VanCity only picked it up now.

ozonemania · #**4702** Posted **Feb 9, 2012, 10:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by officedweller

Yeah - it would have been almost a year ago - before most of our roof went on.
Interesting on how VanCity only picked it up now.

Obviously they don't visit here enough!

SFUVancouver · #**4703** Posted **Feb 10, 2012, 4:41 PM**

I had these emailed to me. It was one of those forward-forward-forward emails, so I haven't a clue who took them. Mods, it's your call.

[edit] Sourced!

Source: http://imgur.com/a/pRWfA

red-paladin · #**4704** Posted **Feb 10, 2012, 6:39 PM**

The pictures are breathtaking, but "Third-party articles and images must be properly formatted and credited"

deasine · #**4705** Posted **Feb 11, 2012, 12:58 AM**

We'll change those images to links for the time being.

SFUVancouver · #**4706** Posted **Feb 11, 2012, 9:23 PM**

Deasine, Red-Paladin, the changes you've made are fine with me. It felt like a grey area to me, hence why I made a point of spelling out why I hadn't sourced the images. They are good photos, though.

SpongeG · #**4707** Posted **Feb 12, 2012, 4:42 AM**

kinda late now perhaps - but this was on twitter - i missed it

Anyone catch BC Place's exterior light show as part of Illuminate Yaletown? 1-minute show "on the 0:00's" every 10 minutes. Will RT videos

PaperTiger · #**4708** Posted **Mar 7, 2012, 7:57 PM**

http://www.vancouversun.com/cancels+million+Place+renaming+deal+with+Telus/6265948/story.html

🞵🞵🞵!!!!

How in gods name can they claim poverty out of one side of their mouths and then turn their noses up at $40 Million!

God I miss Gordo. Christy is an idiot.

dreambrother808 · #**4709** Posted **Mar 7, 2012, 8:02 PM**

Agreed. 🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵 ridiculous!!!!

WarrenC12 · #**4710** Posted **Mar 7, 2012, 8:59 PM**

Terrible decision.

osirisboy · #**4711** Posted **Mar 7, 2012, 9:11 PM**

Good I'm glad I wanted it to remain as bc place. Why are people so mad that it's not going to be named after some corporation? Are people upset with the missed revenue? So Are you guys also upset they don't name our airport and schools after corporations for examPle as well?

David · #**4712** Posted **Mar 7, 2012, 9:17 PM**

Great decision. BC Place is an iconic brand in itself and any name change wouldn't have ever been accepted by the general public anyways. Most people I know still refer to "GM Place" for one example, and clearly Telus wasn't going to be on board with something like "Telus Field at BC Place" so its their loss.

Zassk · #**4713** Posted **Mar 7, 2012, 10:37 PM**

I'm not sure why it couldn't have been "Telus BC Place".

djh · #**4714** Posted **Mar 7, 2012, 10:39 PM**

Telus probably learned their lesson from the Science World / Telusphere / Telus World of Science debacle. Everybody still calls is Science World because it's a simple, unambiguous name. The same confusion would most definitely have been repeated if the name would have ended-up being "Telus Field at BC Place". That $40m would have lead to little or no name recognition for the sponsor.

So yes, a good business call on Telus' part.

s211 · #**4715** Posted **Mar 7, 2012, 10:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by djh

So yes, a good business call on Telus' part.

????

the govt pulls the plug, and you say it's a good call by Telus?

Now THAT's what I call revisionist history.

vanman · #**4716** Posted **Mar 7, 2012, 10:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by osirisboy

Good I'm glad I wanted it to remain as bc place. Why are people so mad that it's not going to be named after some corporation? Are people upset with the missed revenue? So Are you guys also upset they don't name our airport and schools after corporations for examPle as well?

Exactly. I'm happy to know at least that not everything is for sale to the highest bidder in this province.

flight_from_kamakura · #**4717** Posted **Mar 7, 2012, 11:03 PM**

plus the government seems to be confident that the money can be recuperated through other sponsorship agreements that wouldn't have been possible with the telus deal. all told, i'd prefer to go that route. it's pretty cool when stadia have real names.

dleung · #**4718** Posted **Mar 8, 2012, 12:07 AM**

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Originally Posted by vanman

Exactly. I'm happy to know at least that not everything is for sale to the highest bidder in this province.

I completely share that feeling.

djh · #**4719** Posted **Mar 8, 2012, 12:10 AM**

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Originally Posted by s211

????

the govt pulls the plug, and you say it's a good call by Telus?

Now THAT's what I call revisionist history.

Who knows what happened behind closed doors? We're hearing the press releases. For all either of us know, they both couldn't come to a mutually-beneficial agreement. So it was a good business decision on Telus' part not to sign any proposed contract.

Don't try to turn a non-partisan comment into a political opinion, please and thank-you.

PaperTiger · #**4720** Posted **Mar 8, 2012, 12:21 AM**

It's $40,000,000.00! That’s $9 for every man one and child in BC, that could have been used for schools, parks, child welfare, or any host of things more important than a name.

I'd be curious to know your source for the government being confidant of different sponsorships making up the difference. In the sun article it talked about Pavco being confident the government (that is tax payers) would make up the difference.

Don’t get me wrong I was all for the stadium renovation, and I’m not upset about some tax payers dollars going toward the facility, but if we can get those dollars back simply by using two words instead of two other word to describe the place then I think it is unconscionable to pass up that opportunity.

And to equate naming rights to a stadium to selling rights to schools and libraries is a total red herring.