Re: Temp bleachers made permanent (was: Worst thing about 2003 cupevent)

$1.9 million will barely give you a small-medium sized warehouse shell.

Say (for discussion's sake) $1.9 mil gives you 5000 more permanent seats
(which I strongly doubt.) You're not going to land the Grey Cup with 40,000
seats. If some facility was able to go to 70K, they would likely sell them
out. I would expect that the CFL would have a requirement of 50K minimum.

"Mario R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Dan R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > Far be it me to introduce some common sense into the equation...
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> Well I dunno Dan!
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> > Temporary seating structures are exactly that, temporary. They do not
need
> > meet the structural requirements to be built as permanent structures.
> > Additionally they do not have the structural integrity to contain the
> > infrastructure that must exist in a permanent structure. (Like toilets,
> > concessions, etc.) It might be quaint for one game to have to hike to go
> pee
> > or get beer, it would not be sustainable through a season or seasons.
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> > They exist with the blessing of local building codes (or even
exclusions)
> > because they are temporary.
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> Dan I think this one flew right by your head<G>- we are by no means
talking
> about leaving the scoffolding bleachers in place- Scaffolding is only ever
> properly used as a temporary conveyance. I was indicating that building
> bleachers i.e. out of concrete was the better plan. I realize this was not
> stated in so many words but "permanent" to me means properly
> permanent=concrete. For the 1.9 million spent I bet they could have added
a
> few thousand solid, permanent, concrete, bleachers, strong, non-collapsing
> seats to the facility. :o)
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