Dan Burritt | Email news tips to Dan
11/23/2009
The bid is closed and the offers are in.
Several companies have offered to build a temporary stadium to house the B.C. Lions and Vancouver Whitecaps as the B.C. Place roof gets replaced.
The bidding process closed Friday afternoon and eight offers were made.
The temporary stadium has to seat at least 30,000 people and include numerous private boxes and media facilities.
B.C. Place General Manager Howard Crosley is pleased with the number of bids, "The turnout was very good. To get eight bids on this kind of work is a good indication of the people out there looking for work and we think we'll get some good pricing on it."
Crosley says it has to be built in time for the start of the Lions' next football season in June 2010.
Crosley says they're still deciding on a location, and the old Empire Stadium site is a possibility.
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