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SkyDome Stadium
The SkyDome is located in the heart of the entertainment
district of downtown Toronto. At the corner of Front
and Peter Streets, west of the CN Tower, SkyDome
is just a short walk from Union Station (subway and train station).
Just north of Toronto's Harbourfront, SkyDome is also accessible
from Lakeshore Blvd at the Spadina Avenue exit.
The Skydome weighs 11,000 tons and is almost completely exposed
when the roof is open. The retractable roof area alone is almost
340,000 square feet, and it takes approximately 20 minutes to
open or close the roof. In the outfield is a jumbotron video
display board that is 33 feet high by 110 feet wide. There are
67,200 bulbs in the video board and it cost approximately $17,000,000
to complete.
The playing surface is symmetric from
left to right, with the lines being 328, the alleys being 375
and dead center being 400. The outfield wall is padded all
the way around and is 10 feet high, and the field can be converted
from baseball to football in less than 12 hours, even though
it’s almost never needed.
The turf needs more than 8 miles of zippers to connect
the individual strips.
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