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The Calgary Herald, 01 Sep 2007.For special events such as Grey Cup games, temporary bleachers have been built in the facility's end zones.

The stadium is owned by the University of Calgary and operated by the McMahon Stadium Society.McMahon Stadium is located between the downtown core and the University of Calgary, north of 16 Avenue NW between Crowchild Trail and University Drive.

It is within walking distance of the Banff Trail C-Train station.The stadium currently serves as the home venue for the University of Calgary Dinos, Calgary Colts of the Canadian Junior Football League, Calgary Gators and Calgary Wolfpack of the Alberta Football League, and the Calgary Stampeders of the CFL, who formerly played at Mewata Stadium from 1935 to 1959.The Stadium was also the location used for the 1988 Winter Olympics for the opening and closing ceremonies.The stadium was constructed on the then University of Alberta campus over a 100-day period in 1960 for $1,050,000.

It was built as a replacement for the Mewata Park Stadium.It is named after Calgary residents Frank McMahon and his brother, George McMahon.

McMahon Stadium installed its first AstroTurf artificial playing surface in 1975 amid concerns that the original grass pitch would not withstand an intended increase in use of the stadium facilities by professional, amateur and recreational teams.The new FieldTurf surface is hoped to attract a wider variety of events to the stadium including future international soccer matches.The CFL Grey Cup game was held at McMahon Stadium in 1975, 1993, 2000 and 2009.McMahon Stadium was also used for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1988 Winter Olympics, which required major expansion of its seating area.

McMahon Stadium was expanded in several stages from its original 22,000-seat capacity in 1960 to 38,205 in 1988.More recent renovations in 2001 and 2005, in which luxury boxes replaced bleacher seating in the higher rows of the grandstands, reduced the stadium capacity to 37,317 in 2001, and to its current 35,650 in 2005.

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