Montreal Baseball Stadium Roof

Quebec yes montreal the coalition avenir québec government believes in the olympic stadium and that will include a new roof.

Montreal baseball stadium roof. The past few years however has given the city s baseball faithful. Is the return of the montreal expos in jeopardy. In tabling a bill giving the olympic installations board a new name. Built in the mid 1970s as the main venue for the 1976 summer olympics it is nicknamed the big o a reference to both its name and to the doughnut shape of the permanent component of the stadium s roof.

Story continues below advertisement. It s been 51 years since the montreal expos debuted in mlb and a little over 15 years since it left seemingly for good. The arena s dome shaped roof covered 170 000 square feet 16 000 m 2 and was made up of eight equal segments constructed from close to 3 000 tons of steel in which six segments could retract underneath the remaining two supported by a 260 foot 79 m long exterior cantilevered arm. A major investment in a new olympic stadium roof before the 2026 world cup should not affect montreal s pursuit of a major league baseball team according to a city official.

Montreal s olympic stadium seen here from mount royal is getting a new 250 million roof. Analysts explain the stadium models are a sign that bronfman is pushing hard to bring the expos back to montreal. By zach spedden on october 16 2019 in at the ballpark major league baseball discussions continue about the possibility of a new roof at montreal s olympic stadium as olympic installation board. Rays president matt silverman told wdae 620 that the rays sole focus for a new home is montreal though they are open to building an open air stadium after tropicana field closes.

A potential montreal baseball stadium design. But in pointe saint charles where a new montreal stadium.