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Originally Posted by suburbanite
At that level of renovations for Olympic Stadium you're probably starting to wonder why you don't jut tear it down and start from scratch.
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The short answer is that they can't afford to tear it down... they're handcuffed to that thing. Even though the RIO's demolition cost estimates are verging on absurd (not surprising given that they have a vested interest in preserving it), no one doubts it would run north of $100 million to demolish the facility.
At that point you might as well just throw a few patches on it and squeeze a couple more decades out of it. The fact that Montreal doesn't have any sports teams constantly clamoring for the latest and greatest (CFL and MLS teams have their own venues anyway) means that there is less pressure to build something new anyway.