BC Place

Since it broke ground in 1981, BC Place, located in downtown Vancouverjust north of False Creek, has remained an immediately recognizable fixture in the Vancouver skyline, as well as an overall historic British Columbia landmark. Besides hosting music concerts and entertainment, as well as major events such as the 1986 Expo, BC Place is the home of the BC Lions, a team which is a member of the Canadian Football League. Additionally, BC Place houses the BC Sports Hall of Fame, and a monument to beloved BC cancer research and athletic icon Terry Fox.

As Canada's first domed arena, BC Place is also the largest air-supported stadium in the world. Though the stadium is often overshadowed by the neighboring General Motors Place, which is the home of the highly popular hockey team the Vancouver Canucks, BC Place certainly regained a fair bit of prestige when it was selected to be the venue for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, as well as the site for the nightly Victory Ceremonies. Since the Ceremonies are naturally the first and last impressions that viewers around the globe will have of the host city, it is no doubt that BC Place will receive a boost of funding and investment after the Games. For instance, plans are already underway to refurbish the stadium and construct a retractable roof. http://www.bcplacestadium.com/

• 2010 Olympics Opening Ceremony, February 12th, 2010
• 2010 Olympics Closing Ceremony, February 28th, 2010
• Nightly Victory Ceremonies

BC Place has been the home of the British Columbia Lions football team of the Canadian Football League since 1983. The stadium has hosted the Grey Cup championship game seven times in history. The facility will host it's eighth ever Grey Cup in 2011, when a brand new retractable roof will have been installed onto the stadium.

Pope John Paul II hosted an event at BC Place during a 1984 visit to British Columbia. It was also home to the North American Soccer League team known as the Vancouver Whitecaps, and hosted the last ever league championship game there in 1983. The National Football League also held a pre-season game there in 1998 when the nearby Seattle Seahawks lost to the San Francisco 49ers 24-21.

The recently awarded Vancouver expansion franchise in Major League Soccer as already agreed to play their five seasons at BC Place.