Rogers Centre Wikipedia. Rogers Centre. Sky. Dome12Former names. Sky. Dome 1. 98. Address. Blue Jays Way. Location. Toronto, Ontario. Coordinates. 433. N7. 92. 32. 1W 4. N 7. 9. 3. 89. 17W 4. Coordinates 4. 33. N7. 92. 32. 1W 4. N 7. 9. 3. 89. 17W 4. Public transit. Union Station. Download Free Game Empire 250 Games Cdn' title='Download Free Game Empire 250 Games Cdn' />Union Bus Terminal. Union Subway Station. Harbourfront. 51. Headlines 2. Ron Paul Tillerson Laid Out A Raving Neocon Foreign Policy In His Senate Hearing US Intel Try To StrongArm Trump Into Russian War. Kilauea Mount Etna Mount Yasur Mount Nyiragongo and Nyamuragira Piton de la Fournaise Erta Ale. Sports journalists and bloggers covering NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, MMA, college football and basketball, NASCAR, fantasy sports and more. News, photos, mock drafts, game. Spadina. Owner. Rogers Communications. Operator. Rogers Stadium Limited Partnership. Capacity. Baseball 4. Canadian football 3. American football 5. Soccer 4. 7,5. 68. Basketball 2. 2,9. Concerts 1. 0,0. Record attendance. Wrestle. Mania X8 6. March 1. 7, 2. 00. Field size. Left Field Line 3. Left Centre Power Alley 3. Centre Field 4. Right Centre Power Alley 3. Registration Key Crack. Right Field Line 3. Backstop 6. 0 feet 1. Surface. Astro. Turf 1. Field. Turf 2. 00. Astro. Turf Game. Day Grass 3. D 2. Astro. Turf 3. D Xtreme 2. Astro. Turf 3. D Xtreme with dirt infield 2. Construction. Broke ground. October 3, 1. 98. Opened. June 3, 1. Construction cost5. Architect. Rod Robbie, Robbie Adjeleian NORR Consortium. Structural engineer. Adjeleian Allen Rubeli Ltd. Services engineer. The Mitchell Partnership Inc. General contractor. Ellis. Don Construction. Tenants. Toronto Blue Jays MLB 1. Toronto Argonauts CFL 1. Toronto Raptors NBA 1. Buffalo Bills NFL 2. Bills Toronto SeriesRogers Centre, originally named Sky. Dome, is a multi purpose stadium in Downtown. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated just southwest of the CN Tower near the northern shore of Lake Ontario. Opened in 1. 98. 9 on the former Railway Lands, it is home to the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball MLB. Previously, the stadium served as home to the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League CFL and the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association NBA. The Buffalo Bills of the National Football League NFL played an annual game at the stadium as part of the Bills Toronto Series from 2. While it is primarily a sports venue, it also hosts other large scale events such as conventions, trade fairs, concerts, travelling carnivals, and monster truck shows. The stadium was renamed Rogers Centre following the purchase of the stadium by Rogers Communications, which also owned the Toronto Blue Jays, in 2. The venue was noted for being the first stadium to have a fully retractable motorized roof, as well as for the 3. It is also the last North American major league stadium built to accommodate both football and baseball. The stadium served as the site of both the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2. Pan American Games. During the ceremonies, the site was referred to as the Pan Am Dome officially as the Pan Am Ceremonies Venue instead of its official name. HistoryeditSky. Dome, called Rogers Centre since 2. Rod Robbie and structural engineer Michael Allen and was constructed by the Ellis. Don Construction company of London, Ontario and the Dominion Bridge Company of Lachine, Quebec. The stadiums construction lasted about two and a half years, from October 1. May 1. 98. 9. The approximate cost of construction was C5. Ontarioprovincial government, the City of Toronto, and a large consortium of corporations. Bratz Rock Angels Pc Game. The CN Tower viewed from the Rogers Centre. BackgroundeditThe main impetus for building an enclosed sports venue in Toronto came following the Grey Cup game in November 1. Exhibition Stadium. The game in which the hometown Toronto Argonauts were making their first Grey Cup appearance since 1. Rain Bowl. As many of the seats were completely exposed to the elements, thousands watched the game from the concession section. To make a bad experience even worse, the washrooms overflowed. In attendance that day was Bill Davis, the Premier of Ontario, and the poor conditions were seen by the largest TV audience ever in Canada over 7,8. The following day, at a rally for the Argos at Toronto City Hall, tens of thousands of people who attended the game began to chant, We want a dome We want a domecitation neededSeven months later, in June 1. Premier Davis formally announced a three person committee would look into the feasibility of building a domed stadium at Exhibition Place. The committee consisted of Paul Godfrey, Larry Grossman and former Ontario Hydro chairman Hugh Macaulay. The committee examined various projects, including a large indoor stadium at Exhibition Place with an air supported dome, similar to BC Place in Vancouver. In 1. 98. 5, an international design competition was launched to design a new stadium, along with selection of a site. Some of the proposed sites included Exhibition Place, Downsview Airport, and York University. The final site was at the base of the CN Tower not far from Union Station, a major railway and transit hub. The Railway Lands were a major Canadian National Railway rail switching yard encompassing the CNR Spadina Roundhouse the desolate downtown lands were part of a master plan for revitalizing the area, which includes City. Place. Ultimately, the RobbieAllen concept won because it provided the largest roof opening of all the finalists, and it was the most technically sound. The name Sky. Dome was chosen as part of a province wide name the stadium contest in 1. Sponsored by the Toronto Sun, ballots were offered for people to submit their suggested name, with lifetime seats behind home plate to all events at the stadium including concerts as the prize. Over 1. 50,0. 00 entries were received with 1. The selection committee narrowed it down to four choices Towerdome, Harbourdome, Sky. Dome, and simply the Dome. The judges final selection was Sky. Dome. Premier David Peterson drew the prize winning entry of Kellie Watson from a lottery barrel containing the over 2,0. Sky. Dome. At the press conference announcing the name, Chuck Magwood, president of the Stadium Corporation of Ontario Stadco, the crown corporation created to run Sky. Dome,1. 9 commented The sky is a huge part of the whole roof process. The name has a sense of the infinite and thats what this is all about. Financingedit. Overhead view of Rogers Centre with the roof closed, as seen from the CN Tower. The stadium was funded by a publicprivate partnership, with the government paying the largest percentage of the tab. The initial cost of 1. C5. 70 million 9. Two levels of government Metro Toronto and Provincial each initially contributed 3. This does not include the actual value of the land the stadium sits on as it was part of a deal with the Crown agency  CN Rail. Canadas three main breweries Labatts, Molson, and Carling OKeefe and the Toronto Blue Jays each paid 5 million 8. An additional 2. 6 other Canadian corporations selected by invitation only also contributed 5 million,2. Skyboxes with four parking spaces for ten years, with an opportunity for renewal and a 9. Skyboxes initially leased for 1. The then unusual financing structure created controversy. First of all, there was no public tender for supplies and equipment. Secondly, companies that paid the 5 million fee, such as Coca Cola, TSN and CIBC, received 1. Third, the contracts were not put up for bid, meaning there was some doubt the contracts were made at a market rate Pepsi stated at the time that had they known the terms of the contract they would have paid far more than 5 million for the rights. Local media like NOW Magazine called the amount charged to the companies scandalously low.