Argos not playing exhibition game at BMO Field

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Announced it was not on the radar at this time.

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Not a priority at this time. Doesn't mean at some point this could happen but whatever. A lot of things could change. I remember Paul Godfrey saying he wouldn't mind in one way the Argos leaving the RC so they could do some reno's that I guess couldn't be done with the Argo's playing there. But I'm sure lots of games being played here between the Rogers people and MLSE who owns BMO.

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Actually the City of Toronto owns BMO Field.
MLSE is a tenant and operational manager.
I don't think there are games being played. I think it's more along the lines of the Argos politely saying we don't want to pay for the expansion - let the City do it. I think this will come up again next year when serious talk of expanding the stadium to 30k - 35k for TFC games.
At that point they can put in the movable seats to acommodate the length of the CFL field. The Argos would have to pay a little less for the renovation since it will happen any way - say for field modifications and seating changes to the plans.

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alpha, I thought the expansion was looking at around 5,000 seats to get it to 25,000. Where did you hear 30-35?

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The oficial stadium plan was origianlly built for an expansion to a shade over 30k in 3 phases. The first phase was to take place some time in 2009 or 2010 depending on need.
Each phase was an additional 5k but talk of the Argos moving there and a need for about 35k in capacity has changed the things somewhat.

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Thanks, interesting.