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Originally Posted by boborider
My point re: the enclosed roof is not that football needs to be inside BUT whatever is built must be capable of hosting and being user friendly to other activities, irregardless of weather, in order to at least attempt to cover the operating costs. Ten or eleven football games a year is not going to provide enough income to come close to recovering operating and maintenance costs unless the Riders are prepared to forfeit all their profits. I'm not sure how many different ways I can say this but THIS CANNOT BE JUST A FOOTBALL STADIUM. That notion makes no practical, economic sense. Just because hockey can be played outside on natural ice, we don't erect bleachers around Wascana slough and hope it is cold enough to freeze the ice for the Pat's games. This would serve the purpose of providing a venue for hockey but, otherwise, would serve no other useful purpose.
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Large Stadiums seldom make money tho, they really do not operate to make money. They generate profits for the the beneficiaries whom collects profits of its uses.They area means to profit not and end.
Rogers Center does not make any money, neither does B.C. Place. But for the folks whom host events there it does.
The Regina Performing Arts Center does not make any money. But if I rent it out.. host and event and collect tickets, food.. etc. I will make some coin.
The only winners in a Stadium deal would be the Riders. Its just they have no means of eating the losses so they have to dump them onto the general public.
It makes perfect sense to build a new Stadium for Football for the Riders. What else would it be used for? The feasibility study already admitted for the previous proposal that the Riders would dominate 80% of the uses of the facility. 20 days max of use. If the Riders are the main tenants then build them a football stadium capable of hosting Soccer (I do think Canada will host a World Cup in the near future) and Grey Cups.
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As for as casting it off to the far flung industrial areas... errrr I myself aren't to keen to that idea. I would rather place in a spot where there would be some hope of generating some type of positive spin off versus a industrial bunker where people drive to and from. Even Evraz Place would be more Ideal to me then the industrial lands.
You would end up with the Situation with Booney Stoney Creek versus Hamilton's orginal lakefront proposal.
We have time to do things right. The Riders should be ashamed for fear mongering us tho about moving. Its like The Yankees or Leafs threatning to move to Oklahoma or something. The most lucrative market in the league and your saying your going to leave?
Yea right... I'll show you the door and make you repay out the shares the public bought also (based on current values of the team... adjusted for inflation of course
) The Riders wouldn't do it.. all a bluff.
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Originally Posted by Dougler306
Yes an outdoor football stadium would be great. But who wants to pay top dollar tickett prices to freeze your ass off outside, id rather just do that in the stadium we got and pay my tickett price that i have already and an outdoor stadium dosent solve the problem that regina needs a bigger venue then the brandt center to hold indoor events
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You could easily build both a new Arena and Outdoor Stadium for the same if not less then a large Domed Stadium. The Arena would get more use simply out of the demand for that type of space versus larger venues.
All of the top grossing sports facilities in North America are typical 25K-32K seat arenas. It does help to have a hockey and basketball team to fill out 80 + days, But you get the idea.
If there was such a demand for larger spaces. BC place and Skydome would be putting up comparable numbers to thier respective arena cousins in the same towns. you can make the argument that for a City like Regina once facility could work, but then from a design stand point Stadium builders shy away from making overly technical seating arrangements as it makes quirky and strange set ups for the main event... Football. Skydome is a mess in Football configuration, since it was built to hot every event under known to man.