Much maligned stadium is getting a new lease on life with the organization running it being given more power to run the place as.
Olympic stadium montreal new roof.
Montreal s olympic stadium will get new roof caq government says.
This week the olympic stadium s website announced it is now accepting company pitches to design the stadium s new 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 government of quebec is.
The estimated cost of the new roof is between 200 million and 250 million.
Montreal s never ending saga of the olympic stadium and its roof rages on.
But now montrealers are trading that bill for a new one.
Montreal s olympic stadium s roof has over 8 000 rips and costs up to 1 million a year to maintain.
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.
Stade olympique is a multi purpose stadium in montreal canada located at olympic park in the hochelaga maisonneuve district of the city.