However, the Blue Jays have extended explored the possibility of changing the Rogers Centre to a purely natural grass surface area, and plans had been examined in order to install a grass area by 2018 to permit more than enough time for analysis and developing of the sod. Proposed options to lock Rogers Centre into its baseball configuration completely in get to install a purely natural grass floor forced the Argonauts to relocate to BMO Field in advance of the 2016 season. The use of normal grass was very long assumed to be unfeasible due to the fact the stadium was intended as a closed construction with a roof that opens, and as such, the interior was not intended or created to deal with temperature, like small temperatures and drainage. The venue was the to start with key group sports activities stadium in North America with a useful, totally retractable roof (Montreal's Olympic Stadium also had a retractable roof, but because of to operational challenges, it was changed with a long lasting fastened roof).
