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After the CFL returned to the capital in 2014, the Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group discovered that many ticket buyers didn’t want to spend the whole game sitting in their seats, but rather preferred to stand together and socialize.

That led to the installation of a long bar rail, extending from one walkway in the east end of TD Place stadium to another in the west after winding through the south grandstand. And a grass-covered berm was replaced by a two-level platform for more socializing and consumption of food and beverages.

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But will any of those areas still be available when mass-gathering sports events eventually return to the stadium and arena at Lansdowne Park? Nobody knows yet, but they’re trying to game-plan for post-COVID-19.

“There’s a million things going on and the business-recovery team, their job is to look forward enough down the road and look for examples on how we can adapt as an organization to make it as safe and as fun and create the best memories that we possibly can,” says Mark Goudie, OSEG president and CEO.