• Costs at completion as of October 1998: $991 Million Canadian.
• Parking Spaces: 3,718.
• This building was build for Montreal's Summer Olympics in 1976, but wasn't fully completed until 1987.
• In 1998 the stadium's retractable roof was replaced with a non-retractable roof due to complications with wind.
• Stadium seats 55,389 people.
• Home of the Montréal Expo's, Montréals baseball team.
• In clear weather, you can have a 80km view from the Observation Deck (which has 3 floors).
• In 1991,a 55 Ton concrete beam fell and crashed on the walkway, forcing the tower to be closed. The Expos played the remainder of their home games on the road.
• Member of "World Federation of Great Towers".
• The cable car:
- Is 2 stories tall.
- Weighs 13.5T (when empty).
- Can accomodate 76 passengers (Top deck 42, Bottom deck 34).
- Moves 2.8m/sec (2 minutes to top).
- does 79 daily runs in peak season and 49 in off season.
- Is 4.5M wide, 6.0M deep and 4.5M high.
- Has a gyroscopic leveling system to keep it horizontal while moving up and down the tower.
- Has 600m of 37mm cable.
- Runs along 266m of track.
• Dimensions
perimeter of stadium: 861 m
length of stadium: 292 m
width of stadium, excluding tower: 268 m
Source: official website
• 12 floors of the tower were converted into office space in 2016-2018.
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