Rogers Centre
Retractable-roof stadium where a rain-soaked opening-night gala proved four steel panels could seal the field in minutes.
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This guide to Rogers Centre in Toronto rebuilds the night of June 3, 1989, when Premier David Peterson, stadium boss Paul Godfrey and Toronto's mayor gathered to unveil what was billed as an engineering marvel: North America's first stadium with a fully retractable roof. It traces how a project priced at 150 million dollars ballooned past half a billion, and the moment mid-ceremony when the dignitaries decided to demonstrate what that roof could do.
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