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Sobeys Stadium

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Sobeys Stadium

The stadium fills for one week of tennis a year, then moonlights as a concert bowl all summer. Sobeys Stadium at 1 Shoreham Drive on York University's Keele campus opened in 2004 as the Rexall Centre, a 45-million-dollar, 12,500-seat centre court built by Tennis Canada as the Toronto home of what is now the National Bank Open. The tournament pedigree is the anchor: the ATP and WTA 1000-level event alternates genders with Montreal each summer, bringing the sport's top ten to a DecoTurf court identical to the US Open surface, ringed by eleven outer courts including a 2,000-seat grandstand. The naming rights have tracked Canadian retail - Rexall to 2015, insurer Aviva to 2022, then grocery giant Sobeys - while the complex added the Centre of Excellence, a 35,000-square-foot indoor hall that doubles as York's convocation venue and winter training courts. The concert business now runs under its own brand: The Bowl at Sobeys Stadium programs an 8,000-capacity open-air season of headline tours, comedy and cultural festivals, with lower-bowl configurations scaling from 4,500 seats to full-stadium shows near 14,000. The 2015 Pan American Games used the stadium for its tennis competition, cementing the facility's standing as Canada's premier hard-court venue outside Montreal. Pioneer Village subway station connects the campus to the TTC network, and the 15-acre grounds handle festivals, film shoots and corporate events across a calendar that long ago outgrew its one marquee week of tennis. The stadium's corporate hospitality inventory - courtside boxes, the President's Suite and rooftop patios - works both the tournament week and the concert season, while Tennis Canada's national training centre keeps the outer courts busy with the next generation of Canadian professionals through the ten months when the main bowl sits between headline events.

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Type: Stadium / Arena

Address: 1 Shoreham Dr, Toronto, Canada, M3N 3A6

Telephone: 416-665-9777

Website: https://sobeysstadium.com

Cover Charge: 1

Capacity: 12500

Opening Date: 01/01/2004

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