The Familia
Active Member
Would the existing grandstand be completely gutted and redone? That structure isn’t getting any younger either and needs a major overhaul.
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Urban Development and Proposals Discussion
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darwink
Senior Member
Could grab the ~2016, 2017 reports from the Olympic Bid Exploration Committee (or whatever its name was). I don't remember either way. They're all available on the city website.
CalgaryTiger
Senior Member
Looks like just over 26 Million in 2018 dollars. Right in the first section it mentions creating a stage the size of a CFL Field... Holy, it is right there in black and white.
More seats behind the infield stands and on the track to bring capacity to 40,000. Good Grey Cup capacity.
And Paris thought they came up with the Athletes parade, nope, we did, except it would've been around a dirt chuckwagon racing track, very on brand for us. (Not starting the cliche "western" debate).
To sum up... 18-ish Million to remove the infield roof and install temporary seating, 1 Million for washroom upgrades, and 7-ish Million for the stage (one hell of stage I'm sure). That's the 26 Million Dollars (in 2018) total.
So 100 Million (even in 2024 almost 2025 dollars) could get you to a pretty decent 30,000 seat venue.
Sources: https://www.calgary.ca/major-projects/2026-olympic-bid/reports.html
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lemongrab
Active Member
It's a fantastical idea (though it shouldn't be), but the condition for public funding on the arena should have been an ownership stake for the Stampede (a not-for-profit org that is essentially arms length from all orders of gov't). And CSEC could have a seat on the Stampede Board. CSEC and Stampede should be complimentary, not competitive (and tbf they are fairly cooperative, but there are plenty of friction points with diverging interests).
- Climate controlled concourse that is roomy enough (but thousands of people in same place/time will always end up somewhat cramped), with escalators and elevators to upper levels.
- Actual seats (many under some degree of shelter)
- The big revenue opportunity is the premium event spaces (kind of a different form of 'suite')
With a bigger+better infield grandstand the Stampede could sell more better seats for the rodeo. It's pretty easy to design around the chucks (though ideally we just move on from it altogether...). The evening show would need a re-think (tbh I might have bigger ethical concerns about TYCs than the horse slaughter); I'd look to move the concert series to the new/improved stadium (after or instead of the chucks), and reprogram the arena.
It's actually in pretty good shape. At the end of the day you really just want things like:
- Climate controlled concourse that is roomy enough (but thousands of people in same place/time will always end up somewhat cramped), with escalators and elevators to upper levels.
- Actual seats (many under some degree of shelter)
- The big revenue opportunity is the premium event spaces (kind of a different form of 'suite')
With a bigger+better infield grandstand the Stampede could sell more better seats for the rodeo. It's pretty easy to design around the chucks (though ideally we just move on from it altogether...). The evening show would need a re-think (tbh I might have bigger ethical concerns about TYCs than the horse slaughter); I'd look to move the concert series to the new/improved stadium (after or instead of the chucks), and reprogram the arena.