Olympic Stadium Montreal New Roof

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Montreal s olympic stadium s roof has over 8 000 rips and costs up to 1 million a year to maintain. But now montrealers are trading that bill for a new one. This week the olympic stadium s website announced it is now accepting company pitches to design the stadium s new roof. However olympic stadium officials said that the new top won t be required to be retractable.

Much maligned stadium is getting a new lease on life with the organization running it being given more power to run the place as. Montreal s olympic stadium will get new roof caq government says. 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. A new olympic stadium roof won t be retractable but will possibly allow in natural light according to a call for tenders released by the olympic installation board on tuesday.

The estimated cost of the new roof is between 200 million and 250 million. The quebec government had committed to a new 250 million roof for montreal s olympic stadium by 2023 but now officials are aiming for 2024.