05-18-2016, 05:36 PM
(05-18-2016, 04:17 PM)clasher Wrote: More icepads but no location
Looks like the price for the place keeps going up despite no location being finalized. I wonder if the "no sportsplex" side will start to become more vocal than the those arguing about location. Seems like a a huge amount of money.
It was interesting, the ceiling height for the gym hasn't been nailed down, so they might not be able to host volleyball tournaments even though they want to build it near the 401 to make it easier to hold tournaments. Might not get enough or long enough swim lanes to be able to host swim meets. And they have no financial plan to understand if it is worthwhile to build a complex big enough to host tournaments.
I'm starting to wonder if they have done any cost analysis to understand if it makes sense to build it all as one facility or 3 different facilities. There would be some overhead and administration expenses that would be saved if it was one building but it seems like having it as one building is making it difficult to find locations for it in the city. As three separate facilities it might be easier to locate them in the city. 2 additional ice rinks to the ice park and refurbish existing ones instead of closing them (minimizes additional overhead and equipment for ice rinks tend to support 2 rinks), add a double/triple gym to Hespeler Arena (minimizes additional administration and overhead), and see if some sort of swimming pool could be located in Riverside park, they use to have an outdoor one, not sure what it would take to rebuild it and put a building around it to make it a year round facility. They have the space that use to be a farm that has been under used for ages.
Speaking to some people there I found out about this interesting quote from 2012.
“It’s very clear we had also said to John in the future the city was willing to look at partnership of some sort, an arena/convention centre kind of complex."
http://www.therecord.com/news-story/2596...ew-campus/