Winnipeggers have said their final goodbyes to Canad Inns Stadium. The home of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers for the last 60 years played host to its final event last month.
The stadium will soon meet the business end of a wrecking ball and a two-storey, 144,000-square-foot Target store will rise in its place as the anchor of a 26-acre development. Work on the site is expected to complete by the fall of 2013.
Canad Inns Stadium was supposed to have been closed a year ago but the construction of the Bombers' new home, Investors Group Field at the University of Manitoba, was delayed by several months so the team was forced to play another year at its long-time home.
