Tender for Charlottetown arena steel will cost $6.4 million
CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — The primary section in developing a brand new multi-use sports activities complicated in Charlottetown ought to start inside a matter of weeks.
The $25.5-million complicated will change the Simmons Sport Centre, in addition to the pool, on North River Street.
Metropolis council’s parks and recreation committee met on June 6 and is recommending a young for greater than $6,493,000 for the pre-engineered metal portion of undertaking be awarded to Fitzgerald and Snow, the one contractor to bid on the tender, which closed April 29.
Following the assembly, Coun. Terry Bernard, chair of the committee, advised SaltWire Community that the town needs to get an early begin on ordering metal frames and roofing due to anticipated delays within the business.
“If council awards this tender, supply is predicted to take 10 to 12 months,’’ Bernard mentioned.
Nonetheless, work on the undertaking will begin lengthy earlier than that.
The subsequent step is to problem a request for proposals to deal with the demolition of the pool, which sits adjoining to the present Simmons enviornment.
That demolition is predicted to start in July or August, which suggests the pool won’t function this season.
Nonetheless, a brand new pool is a part of the undertaking and is predicted to open in June 2023.
The undertaking will value $25.5 million with the federal authorities paying simply over $10 million, the province $8.5 million and the town $6.7 million.
The brand new enviornment must be able to open by September 2023.
Council will vote on the tender at its subsequent month-to-month public assembly on June 13.
