Labatt Park (Montreal)

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Labatt Park is also a ballpark in London, Ontario.

Labatt Park was the name of a proposed ballpark that was to be built to house the Montreal Expos, replacing Olympic Stadium. Proposed in 2000, it was designed by the AXOR Group of Montreal and was to be an open-air stadium with a capacity of 36,287. It was to be built on the former Grand Trunk Railway Bonaventure Station site bordered by Rue St. Jacques, Rue de la Montagne, Rue Notre Dame and Rue Peel, two blocks south of the Bell Centre. Architecturally, the park was a departure from the retro ballpark trend; it would have featured an exterior glass wall and a postmodern design. Labatt signed on as the naming sponsor. The park was never built, and ultimately the Expos moved to Washington, D.C., becoming the Washington Nationals. The model of the park was given to the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame, where it was destroyed by vandals on April 27, 2005.

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