I know the thing is temporary, but still: Godspeed to the folks in charge of getting a 50,000-person venue up and running (and permitted) in 11 months.
As mentioned above, I think some are being misled by the not-entirely-accurate "Stadium" name it's being given. It's an outdoor music festival site with a temporary outdoor stage and some temporary scaffolding-type grandstands. For a comparison, the Toronto IndyCar track (including grandstands, trackside suites, all those concrete barriers and fences) has been
set up and taken down each year for most of the last 35+ years over the course of about maybe two months. Not as many in recent times, but for
its first 10 or 15 years the attendance was allegedly 60,000 or more on race day.
Edit:
https://archive.is/L8HDg
… expected to have seats for 30,000 fans, with the rest standing.
… a removable standard stage at the end, which will allow big-name artists to bring in their own customized stages. (It will neither have the facilities nor the pitch to accommodate a sports team, Hoffman said.)
https://urbantoronto.ca/news/2024/0...-stadium-downsview-setting-stage-future.57005
It is envisioned as a horseshoe-like structure with seating that can be reconfigured to suit the varying demands of large-scale concerts and events
Just a guess on my part, but I could see them reconfiguring this temporary set-up to be half of the capacity or less by having the scaffolding stands be smaller and closer to the stage, if and when Budweiser Stage is being rebuilt, so it would be more suitable for a higher number of shows.
... As much as I enjoy the CFL and the Argos, I think the NFL comes one day, ,shortly after the new NFL compatible stadium is announced...
Again as mentioned above, I'm mystified as to why an outdoor music festival site with some scaffolding stands, to be operated by concert promoters Live Nation, has prompted any talk about football or an NFL stadium (which this is definitely
not). Rogers will not own or operate it, they're just the sponsor name. And Rogers has had nothing to do with the NFL for several years now, since
the last time a few NFL games were on CityTV or Sportsnet in 2016.
No one is building an NFL stadium on the faint hope that it might somehow attract a team. Even in the unlikely, and most would say objectionable, event that some level of government paid for it
as in Nevada, it would have to involve an NFL team owner already agreeing to move into it
before construction would start, which isn't happening any time soon, if ever.
Also, I've repeatedly heard and read people express a strange notion over the decades that somehow the CFL and Argos have been what's stopping the NFL from being here. Apart from a questionable and naive possible proposal in 1974,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Football_Act
this has never made any sense. There could be one of them, both (like the NHL and
WHA Toronto Toros in hockey), or neither. I suppose it could be argued that a hypothetical NFL team in Toronto could make it more difficult for the CFL to thrive here, but there's no other reason to assume one of them somehow prevents the other from existing.