New Downtown Calgary Arena

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Originally Posted by suburbia

Richmond Oval

Here's an image from how it was during the Olympics for long track. It also provides height scale. Could use more for some sports, but doesn't need much more. Would obviously need more seating too.
https://raic.org/sites/default/files/awards/images/award_recipients/richmond-5.jpg

After conversion on conclusion of Olympics:
http://richmondoval.ca/docs/virtual_tour.htm

Here's an overview image - the track on the left is 200m, just to provide scale - so this much larger than a full-on 400m track in total:
http://www.solaripedia.com/images/large/2347.jpg

I've not embedded images because I don't want to bother with all of the appropriate copyright disclaimers and the like. Others can do it if they wish, of course.

I think this structure is much better than some of the other ugly facilities that have been shared, while also being much larger and flexible.

It's a beautiful facility and the wood beams are gorgeous. But it's max capacity for speed skating was only 8000. The height and spans for a structure designed to fit larger than that will be quite significant.