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Originally Posted by Welkin
Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis is another large retractable roof stadium that was built mainly for football. Outside of Indianapolis Colts games, the stadium only has six big events scheduled between now and January 2013 (they do have several small events like weddings scheduled). The have Supercross in March, a Fire Department Convention in April, a Kenny Chesney concert in June, the National FFA convention in October, the BOA Grand Nationals in November and Monster Jam in January. If a city the size of Indianapolis can't keep their stadium busy, what realistic expectations would we have for Regina? Eight Colt's game a year make up over 90% of Lucas Oil Stadium's revenue just like the Riders would make up 90% of the revenue of any stadium in Regina.
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Indianapolis also has indoor complexes with capacities of almost 20,000 and 8,000.
Edit: not to mention that Lucas Oil Stadium is almost 2x the size in the base configuration, and about 1.5x in the expanded formats when compared to the last proposal here.
Vancouver's Stadium is used a lot more often, what do they say? 200 event days a year?
Comparisons can be made to any stadium around he world to suit anyone's argument. There have been successful multi-purpose venues and there have been unsuccessful ones.