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Originally Posted by Cyrodill
7 year multi million $$ upgrades to MTS will start his year.
Some additions listed. More details to follow.
- New washrooms
- HD Score Board
- New Concessions/vendors/Food etc. on multiple levels
- Climate Controlled Vestibule at Portage/Donald
- Retail Expansion /New Retail Additions
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One other big aspect of the changes to the MTS Centre is the fact that the 2nd level skywalk area along Portage Avenue is effectively going to become part of the concourse, i.e. it will be a ticketed area so that you can actually now easily move between the upper and lower levels. There will be concessions, etc. in that space as well. This is a great idea because the MTS Centre is generally pretty cramped, and that rather large space was going unused for the most part during games.
I wonder if the HD scoreboard will be a totally new thing or if they're just going to swap out the display panels in the existing unit? I hope it's the former... I always thought that we had a very small scoreboard by modern NHL standards. Ours was pretty awesome by 2004 AHL standards, but it's a bit underwhelming today.
It's nice to see the MTS Centre get these kinds of tweaks. Given that it is now 9 years old and home to a NHL team, a few improvements are in order.