It sounds like the roof on BC Place will be deflated either this week or the next according to an article by Lowell Ullrich of the Vancouver Province on April 25th.
For the past several weeks, six account reps have been contacting season-ticket holders about moving a seat indoors to a corresponding chair outside. So far so good, according to the club. The biggest problem came when the Lions had to juggle the guest list after discovering the contractor, Nussli Special Events Ltd., could only build a replay scoreboard on the north side of the new facility. A Nussli spokesman did not respond to an interview request.
Only a handful of season-seat holders rejected the great outdoors and will wait for the club to return downtown sometime next year. Roof renovations at B.C. Place Stadium are set to begin in earnest next week with the controlled deflation of the existing cover which prompted the reported $468 million makeover.
The article also discusses the difficulties and logistics of relocating season ticket holders to the new, temporary home of the Lions.
CFL.ca also paid a visit to Vancouver on the weekend, and has some nice video and photos from the construction site, which you can check out:
Video: http://www.cfl.ca/video/index/id/10995?autostart=true
Photos: http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/album.php?aid=419608&id=134002920443&ref=mf
I don’t know about you Lions fans, but I’m getting pretty excited about this season!
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