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Originally Posted by thurmas
I look at those Skydome pics from the 80's and think the $600 million in 1989 dollars they spent was misspent. Had they built a 40,000 seat baseball specific park for the Jays and renovated Exhibition Stadium to be CFL specific only with a new grandstand closer to the field for football it probably could have all been done for under $400 million.
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That is a wonderful sounding scenario. Quite literally, had Skydome been built a couple years later, this may have been the case as single-purpose stadiums came back into vogue (e.g. Camden Yards, Jacob's Field, etc.).
While I don't know this to be absolutely true, wave46 is probably correct that a multi-purpose, 365-day-a-year facility was a must for the provincial and federal governments.
Plans to turn Skydome into a proper 'ballpark' are in the works with specific details to come this year or next. There are a lot of things that can be done to make it a better place to play and watch baseball.
Sportsnet article
Ballpark digest article
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