How much did Olympic Stadium cost to build?
The Olympic Stadium in Montreal, known as the Big Owe, was built for the 1976 Olympic Games. StadiumDB reported in April 2025 that the project was originally estimated at 134 million Canadian dollars and that the final bill exceeded 1.6 billion, with Quebec taxpayers paying until 2006, while the Globe and Mail wrote in 2009 of a 1.5 billion dollar debt and a 3 billion dollar total price tag for the Olympic facilities with interest, maintenance and repairs.
Final project cost
CAD 1.6 billion
Approximately $1.62 billion
Cost basis: 1976
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