Retractable Roof Baseball Stadiums

Chase field built 1998.

Retractable roof baseball stadiums.

Miller park built 2001. T mobile park seattle washington seattle mariners safeco field originally rogers centre toronto canada toronto blue jays. Skydome toronto the home of the blue jays of major league baseball mlb was opened in 1989 and began the era of retractable roof stadiums. Skydome rogers centre toronto 500 million the home of the blue jays of major league baseball mlb was opened in 1989 and began the era of retractable roof stadiums.

The retractable roof stadiums is available in two options. Stadiums that cover both spectators and playing field. 560 foot span track to track just short of two football fields in length or roughly 5 27 acres. The other option is a system made of 3 parts with one fixed and 2 movable parts.

Safeco field built 1999. It also holds approximately twice the amount of seating as tropicana field but. Minute maid park houston texas houston astros. One panel is fixed and the other three move.

Marlins stadium built 2012. Minute maid park built 2000. Mlb retractable roof ballparks. Another holdover from a utilitarian era for stadiums toronto s rogers centre does at least have a retractable roof.

Only domed and retractable roof stadiums are included i e. This can be opened at up to 2 3 66 of the full size of the roof. Chase field phoenix arizona arizona diamondbacks. Wembley stadium in london which seats 90 000 spectators is not included as the roof can only be partially closed.

Roof panels can be operated independently to produce micro shading effects. Rogers centre built 1989. It takes roughly 13 15 minutes to go from the fully closed to the fully open position. While other stadiums had previously been built with removable tops a la montreal s olympic stadium the skydome was the first to have a fully retractable roof.

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