Reside Nation Leisure has unveiled plans for a brand new 50,000-seat stadium in north Toronto to host high world music acts.
Rogers Stadium, to be constructed on a former runway, will open in June 2025 on former Downsview Airport lands earlier slated to host an enormous movie studio advanced. Reside Nation is partnering with Northcrest Developments after it shelved plans for the movie studio on a 370 acre website previously utilized by Downsview Airport.
The property developer has an choice to revive plans for a movie studio improvement sooner or later. The out of doors Rogers Stadium will probably be constructed on the north finish of the runway, not the place the movie studio was deliberate.
“This was a pure response to an unprecedented quantity of stadium-level artists on the street as we speak, we now have one other residence for them to carry out,” Erik Hoffman, president of music at Reside Nation Canada, instructed a press convention in Toronto on Thursday.
Hoffman added Toronto’s rising profile as a vacation spot for main pop music artists and rock bands has been been constructed up partially because of the contribution of hometown artists like Drake and The Weeknd. “At this time’s announcement embodies precisely the place Toronto sits on the worldwide stage,” he argued.
Reside Nation will proceed to host summer season live shows on the Rogers Centre within the metropolis’s downtown core. Northcrest, the lead developer, purchased the previous Downsview airport lands from Bombardier in 2018, and has additionally deliberate residential and retail developments on the property simply north of downtown Toronto.
Rogers Communications, the Canadian media big, could have naming rights on the brand new live performance venue. “We’re excited in regards to the alternative to strengthen not simply Toronto, however Canada’s leisure and cultural industries, along with Reside Nation, Northcrest Developments and our authorities companions,” Tony Staffieri, CEO of Rogers Communications, instructed the press convention.