It would be backwards to only make it a 30K stadium. The Riders are going to have to cap their season ticket holders this year so that every game isn’t sold out, and TF already holds close to 30K. I would think in the range of 35 to 45k would be what they have to look at.
It wouldn’t be backwards at all. You want to maintain that demand, so you can continue to cap season tickets at the optimal point that guarantees you can sellout the remaining single game seats for top dollar.
I’d like to see any venue be able to accommodate more people for Grey Cup but that’s not entirely necessary either so long as you can sellout the stadium at a higher average price and maintain a loud, intimate environment.
Well of course it would have to be bigger than the Fargodome. I was just using that as an example. It would need to be a minimum of 35,000 and expandable to 50,000 for Grey Cup games.
The title is a bit misleading, it simply suggests they are looking into it. As a fan, I'd rather not have a dome, but if it's a dome over nothing I know where my choice lies.
Interesting concept that you need to keep only a limited number of seats available and cap your season tickets.
The problem Montreal is experiencing is that have a cap of 20K and are consistantly sold out at higher then league average ticket prices, however, they have no real concept what the true demand for the tickets would be. Could they consistantly fill a 30K stadium or maybe 35K stadium. They don't know and can't really measure it except for people phoneing for tickets. So they are expanded the existing stadium to 25K.
Over the past 2 years the riders have been able to consistently sell 28k per game. However, the riders are one or two seasons away from being able to only sell 20k per game. If they are going to build a new stadium they need it to sit at least 35k for regular season games.
I agree from a economics point of view a dome makes sense if you can link it to other initiatives such as conferences, other sporting events, concerts and have it used 175+ times a year. For that to happen they would need to move it from its current location to downtown or just north of tracks.
^I agree it would be a bad bad idea to keep it in its current location, that area is a major major eye sore of Regina.
I don't think it could make it down town the only place they could do it would be in the wascana park area since its really the only unclaimed land in the downtown area that would be sizable enough to build on, but we all know that wont happen there and I really wouldn't want it to happen there to be honest.
Don't know what the answer is, which is why I am not a City Planner
At this point is pretty obvious that something has to be done about Taylor Feild, we need more capacity and I am seriously worried about TF just plain falling apart to be honest that place is ancient, and truth be told its not like lambeau or soldier field where thoes places housed the "ghosts" of teams past. Rider sucked for allot of the years in TF, a change really couldn't make things worse. It would honestly make me a little sick to see 100 mil be put into that stadium to bring it up to par.
In reference to demand I don't think that is at all what has made the Riders sell out games, its been a quality on feild product and a community getting behind its product. The fan base was always there it was just hard to gut out so many years of feeling like the team didn't care about the community and poor poor on field production can only be taken for what almost 20 years???? This past year if the stadium was 40k there would have been some games sold out, and others that wouldn't have been I am sure but I think its worthwhile to be able to accommodate that many fans. Especially when Riderpride is at an all time high.
The only time in my life that I have been able to attend a Rider game and was not able to was over the last 2 years. When I was living in Regina I was a season ticket holder at the ripe age of 13 until I moved away at 18. I will be moving back home to Regina in a year and a half, at that point I will have been living away from there for 10 years!
They could also build it where the intermodal is being moved from (next to the old Superstore along Dewdney Ave). I don't think they could make it fit next to the Lawson Aquatic Centre and Fieldhouse as some have suggested, not without knocking down a few homes anyway. Another idea might be somewhere along Pinkie Road, when it is upgraded for the construction of the new intermodal (it will connect the #1 and # 11 highways). That way it would be easily accessible to fans driving from Saskatoon, Moose Jaw, etc.
Of course its all hypothetical, but those locations make the most sense to me.
That sounds about right to me.
But you do have to be careful that you keep tickets at a premium. Things may be good now for the Riders, but there have been more bad times than good.
Regina wants domed stadium?
No we don't.
I wouldn't want a domed stadium either, but I could live with it. Just don't be like Moose Jaw and drag the process of building out by petitions and referendums, etc. All that will do is make the final bill larger, and bring uncertainty towards a sport franchise. Seems like many in the town I live in don't get that, that the facility will be used year round. I think that is the main reason for wanting a dome.
B.C. Place is a terrible place to watch football. Commonwealth Stadium is a great multi-use park and a great place to watch football. Don't build a doomed stadium (yup I meant to spell it that way). 'Nough said.
Never been to BC Place but looks good on the tube other than it has no open air capability which should be rectified post Olympics I understand as they are going to put a retractrable roof on it which will be great!!
If they want a dome, it should have a retractable roof. I know it's more costly, but it's worth it, even if it's only opened a couple of times a year. Canadians don't want to go indoors to watch sports in the summer. BC Place is adding a retractable roof at a cost of over $200M, it would of been much cheaper to build it that way from the start.
They should make it 32,000 seats, expandable to 50,000 for the GC.
Having been to both and as a season ticket holder, without doubt I can tell you that the Rogers Center by far and away is the worst.
If the can build a domed stadium in Detroit for the Lions, considering how much of a basket case that city and state is, why can't they build one in Regina? And I say this stadium would make back its original cost and more when its all said and done.
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Don't do it regina! Extra capital and operational costs will bankrupt the team!
Built a sweet outdoor stadium a la Winnipeg.
When the stadium was built in the early 80’s the technology they plan on using now didn’t exist yet.
It's an interesting argument for sure. If they build an outdoor stadium, it's almost going to be used exclusively for the Riders. If they build a dome, you can host concerts and trade shows and what not all year long. In the end it will probably come down to how much they are willing to spend.
That same sentence could be said about anything in the world.
No technology from today would have been available in the 80’s.
Uh…what?