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Originally Posted by curnhalio
Is it just me or does the blue seat look slightly wider than the orange ones? If that is the case then the sections could wind up being 15 seats wide from the current 16. That would reduce overall capacity by a few hundred seats if that was the case. It's worth it though to have cupholders for every seat.
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Based on the link provided by q12, the municipality is paying for 10,102 seats (8,765 fixed + 1,337 retractable) -
http://www.halifax.ca/council/agenda...50113ca141.pdf. The award tender excludes loose arena floor seating and skybox seating so there doesn't appear to be a reduction in seating. According to the Hussey Seating Company literature, the seating width is selectable from 19" to 24 inches wide -
http://www.husseyseating.com/storage...0Sel%20Web.pdf so it appears as though the seats can be selected to be a direct replacement in number.
Just as a comparison, the Air Canada Centre (home of the Maple Leafs) seats are 19 and 20 inches wide -
http://www.theaircanadacentre.com/about/facts.asp. Based on drawing dimensions in this WTCC document -
http://www.tradecentrelimited.com/si...s_May_2007.pdf, the current Metro Centre (aka Scotiabank Centre) seats also appear to be 19 - 20 inches wide (centre to centre) according to my calculations. The Metro Centre was also built with ample leg room (especially for back in 1978) with 32 inches per row width (32 inch "RUN").
I remember when the Metro Centre first opened in 1978 the seating capacity was around 9,600 and the reason given for it being less than the initially quoted 10,000 capacity was that seats were selected to be wider than was common at the time (probably standard width these days). Since then seats have been added in the skyboxes and perhaps elsewhere in the arena(?) since it is now listed as 10,595 for hockey -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotiabank_Centre