Rogers Stadium to debut in 2025 at former Downsview Airport

Toronto is getting a large new out of doors live performance venue at a website that has welcomed hundreds of signature acts just like the Rolling Stones through the years.

Reside Nation Canada confirmed on Thursday that Rogers Stadium will debut at YZD, the previous Downsview Airport location, in June 2025.

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow and Premier Doug Ford had been readily available for the announcement.

Rogers Stadium will change into Toronto’s largest purpose-built out of doors live performance venue, with a capability of fifty,000 on roughly 44 acres of the north finish of the runway.

Reside Nation Canada says the brand new live performance venue can be a “non permanent fixture,” serving as an open-air facility designed to function through the summer season, with a major vacation spot for reside music and “worldwide acts of diversified genres.”

“I’m so happy to welcome Reside Nation and the longer term Rogers Stadium to YZD,” stated Premier Ford. “This thrilling venue will deliver much more vacationers and funding to our province, boosting native companies, creating new jobs and drawing in artists and occasions from all over the world.”

Firm officers say the previous Downsview Airport was chosen because the venue’s location because of its “proximity to main transportation and transit connections in a north space of Toronto that makes it simply accessible from different cities within the GTA.”

In Could, Northcrest Developments took over the positioning and introduced a landmark $30-billion, 370-acre improvement of the previous airport, renaming it “YZD.” As soon as accomplished “within the coming many years,” YZD will characteristic seven neighbourhoods and 24,000 new houses.

“Rogers Stadium is a match with Northcrest Developments’ imaginative and prescient for YZD as a vacation spot for housing, work, tradition, and leisure, shifting the centre of gravity north for brand spanking new signature Toronto actions,” Reside Nation Canada employees say.

Downsview Airport opened in 1929 and served as an air base for the Royal Canadian Air Pressure through the Second World Struggle. Bombardier offered the positioning in 2018 to a Canadian pension supervisor, which created Northcrest to supervise the event.

Budweiser Stage, previously the Molson Amphitheatre, is Toronto’s solely main, lively out of doors live performance venue.

“This new music venue will improve Toronto’s status as a world-leading vacation spot for the most important touring acts across the globe,” stated Mayor Chow.