Courting Major League Baseball was a big reason BC Place got an air\u002Dsupported roof.
Beginning from almost the day the last interurban tracks running from downtown to points south and east were ripped out in 1958, there was talk that Vancouver and its suburbs needed a restoration of mass public transit.
During his time on council, as plans for Expo began to take shape, Harcourt spoke up, insisting there be a long-term vision for big projects, to take heed of what had happened in Montreal.Article contenthad claimed in 1970 that, “The Olympics can no more have a deficit than a man can have a baby” — only for the Olympics to run up a billion-dollar shortfall, one that wouldn’t be paid off until the late 1990s.
The Pontiac Silverdome, home of the Detroit Lions, opened in 1975, the first sports stadium to use the technology. B.C. Place was designed by New York City’s Geiger Engineers, who also designed the Metrodome in Minneapolis, which opened two years before B.C. Place, and was considered its sister stadium.
The last round of pre-season games in 1994 saw Griffin and his colleagues set up a baseball field that mimicked the Kingdome’s layout.
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