What is history of CanWest Global Park?

Question

Tell me the history of CanWest Global Park.

Answer 1

It is opened on May 24, 1999 and served as the baseball venue during the 1999 Pan American Games. It is located in Downtown Winnipeg, the facility is named after Canwest Ltd., Canada's largest international media company, but sometimes goes by the nickname "The Fishbowl" ("Goldeye" being a species of freshwater fish native to Winnipeg's waterways). The facility was originally planned to be called "Mind Field", chosen from a stadium-naming contest with title sponsor Mind Computers. However, negative connotations due to the chosen stadium name sounding similar to minefield, as well as Mind Computers bailing out of their naming rights agreement before the stadium opened, led to the scrapping of those original plans. The name of the stadium was officially changed to Canwest Park on January 16, 2008, following the media company's name change from CanWest Global to Canwest.