Business View Magazine | March 2018

52 cell phones when they’re coming to an event,so that we can be better aligned froma ticketing standpoint, froma food and beverage standpoint,and froman overall customer satisfaction feel.” Taking care of Commonwealth Stadium in the cold Canadian climate is a constant challenge,according to Fesyk.“Alot of workand effort has been put into keep- ing the facility looking theway it is,”he says.“But it is a 40-year-old facilityand in terms of outdoor,open air facilities,that’s a prettylong life cycle.We have towork veryhard on snowremoval,ice cleaning; we have to do a lot of work to keep our turf in a usable condition. We’re the northernmost capital in Canada and,because of our climate,what we have to do to keep our facility up and operating is probablya lot more difficult.It would be nice if we could operate 12months of the season,but with theweather that we get in northern Alberta,it’s veryhard for us to do that.So,we do shut down the stadiumat the end of the football season in November andwe get everything going again,back early inMay.So,there’s a lot of workfor us to do be- tween nowand the beginning of May,whenwe’re go- ing to be kicking off our 40th anniversarycelebration.” COMMONWEALTH STADIUM