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Montreal’s Olympic Stadium to get $166M renovation

Montreal’s Olympic Stadium, host venue for the 1976 Summer Olympics, cost more than $700-million to construct. Ryan Remiorz / Canadian Press

MONTREAL – The city’s Olympic Stadium, The Big O – or what some have dubbed The Big Owe – is getting a facelift. 

The government has approved $166 million to renovate the facility.

Of that financial injection, $43 million will go towards the tower where workers for Desjardins will have their offices in 2018.

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The park’s facilities will also benefit from the cash; $98 million will be spent on the surrounding installations.

An infrastructure report tabled in the last provincial budget called for $220 million in work at the Olympic park over the next 10 years.

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The original price tag for the Big Owe was $1.5 billion and it took more than 30 years for taxpayers to pay it off.

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The stadium became the symbol for Montreal’s disastrously over-budget Olympics.

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