Vancouver’s newest entertainment venue will be opening its doors for the first time on Friday.
Construction of the Freedom Mobile Arch at the PNE finished just in time to host its inaugural concert on Friday night and the official FIFA World Cup watch parties starting next week.
The amphitheatre can hold up to 10,000 people and during the World Cup it will host live match broadcasts, live music and entertainment.
“This venue is such a much-needed ladder venue here in British Columbia for the cultural groups, the artists, the creative sector. I think it’s so important.”
The price tag for the venue skyrocketed during construction; the original budget was set at $64.8 million in 2023 and has since tripled to an estimated $183 million.
The amphitheatre will also be the main stage for the PNE Summer Concert Series with acts including Nelly, Sarah McLachlan and the Barenaked Ladies.
Alberta weak and dumb. That’s about it
Don’t you Albertans have a referendumb coming up 🤣🤣
Just shows how easy it to take money from the B.C government and Van city, good job Eby and Sim your pair of simpletons
“$64.8 million in 2023 and has since tripled to an estimated $183 million.”
Gotta love those ever escalating carbon taxes, plastic taxes, packaging taxes…etc.
This is what the people voted for! Alberta, strong & free.
Why does it cost so much to build anything in Canada
majority of the street folks are likely the released from essondale and woodlands.
The homeless will love this!
All that money spent trying to impress the world for the corrupt FIFA world cup yet downtown is still a disease ridden cesspool full of thieves and junkies. Lol too funny… Oh wait I forgot Ken Sim was supposed to clean up Vancouver. Meanwhile all he’s done is build himself a private gym and try to abolish the park board so he can intercept their funding from the federal government. What a cool guy Ken Sim is. Lol what a f**king joke 🤣
Meanwhile the citizens are putting up with high taxes, homeless, drugged out street people and wealthy Vancouver people think there a world-class city and this and FIFA you’ll gladly piss away tax $