T-Mobile Park is a retractable roof stadium in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the ballpark of Major League Baseball's Seattle Mariners and has a seating capacity of 47,929. It is in Seattle's SoDo neighborhood, near the western terminus of Interstate 90. It is owned and operated by the Washington State Major League Baseball Stadium Public Facilities District. The first game at the stadium was played on July 15, 1999.
T-Mobile Park (then Safeco Field) in 2007
T-Mobile Park under construction in 1998. The Kingdome is visible in the background.
View from high left field corner in July 2008
Retractable roof open, July 2008
A retractable roof is a roof system designed to roll back the roof of a structure so that the interior of the facility is open to the outdoors. Retractable roofs are sometimes referred to as operable roofs or retractable skylights. The term operable skylight, while quite similar, refers to a skylight that opens on a hinge, rather than on a track.
The Johan Cruyff Arena in Amsterdam, with the retractable roof opened and closed
Civic Arena, built in 1961
Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne.
Tower and cables for retractable roof at the Olympic Stadium, Montreal