The City of Burnaby has unveiled more details on its plans to replaced one of the city’s oldest recreation facilities at a cost of $187 million.
“CG Brown Pool and Burnaby Lake Arena were both built in the early 1960s and have reached the end of their useful life,” said a city news release. “The city plans to replace them with a new aquatic and multi-sport arena facility on the same site within the Burnaby Lake Sports Complex. The goal is to design the best-possible facility to meet the community’s needs today and into the future.”
The redevelopment of CG Brown Memorial Pool and Burnaby Lake Arena has been identified as a priority community amenity project.
The new aquatic and arena facilities will be developed on the existing site at 3676 Kensington Ave., within the Burnaby Lake Sports Complex. The building program for these facilities will include an NHL-sized pad that can accommodate both ice and dry surfaces, and a significantly larger pool facility with supporting amenities.
The facility program includes:
• an NHL-sized arena pad with five change rooms, support offices, a 40-person multi-purpose room, storage, ice resurfacing, mechanical, electrical and refrigeration rooms, and in-arena spectator seats for approximately 270 spectators, and sufficient viewing area into the arena for an additional 70 moveable seats. There is also additional standing-room viewing available.
• an aquatics facility that includes a leisure pool, hot tub, sauna and steam rooms, a 50 m (10 lane) tank with two bulkheads and a moveable floor, a secondary 25 m (6 lane) tank, several multi-purpose rooms, support offices, change rooms, recreational diving, and a combination of fixed and movable spectator seats; and,
• supporting amenities including reception and office administration areas, a cafe in the main lobby, food concession in the new rink lobby, and a sports hall of fame display area.
Right now the project is at the Detailed Design Rezoning reviews and detailed design are underway for the Burnaby Lake Aquatic and Arena facility.
The design of the public art is being completed and has been incorporated into the detailed design of the building.
The current construction cost estimate is $187M including onsite and offsite works and all contingencies and escalation allowances. This does not include previously-funded costs of approximately $18M for various consulting fees for investigation and design, permit fees and some advanced site servicing costs.
