This week the olympic stadium s website announced it is now accepting company pitches to design the stadium s new roof.
Olympic stadium montreal new roof.
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.
But now montrealers are trading that bill for a new one.
The quebec government had committed to a new 250 million roof for montreal s olympic stadium by 2023 but now officials are aiming for 2024.
However olympic stadium officials said that the new top won t be required to be retractable.
Much maligned stadium is getting a new lease on life with the organization running it being given more power to run the place as.
Montreal s never ending saga of the olympic stadium and its roof rages on.
The government of quebec is.
Stade olympique is a multi purpose stadium in montreal canada located at olympic park in the hochelaga maisonneuve district of the city.
The estimated cost of the new roof is between 200 million and 250 million.
Montreal s olympic stadium will get new roof caq government says.