Hello Don Valley Elected Representatives,
Last week we provided input (email) on why placing a new ice arena in the Don East Parklands would be a bad decision. We suggested a better "double decker" configuration/location that would be an instant Don Mills landmark if built at Don Mills and Eglinton on city land.. You might not know that one does in fact exist in the US. And the cost looks reasonable compared to numbers being discussed. When you read the 2004 "press release" below (golfing reference remarks deleted) you will understand that there are options in Don Mills that should fulfill the Civitan vision and need as well as those of other groups in Toronto. If you go to the Sports Center website you can watch a construction video. There is at least one better solution than using Don East Parklands. Let's see Toronto Build in action.
The Rinks at Shelton
"An 89,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art double-decker ice rink and sports complex
...$6 million-plus project "
http://www.allbusiness.com/north-america/united-states-connecticut/1002999-1.html
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First double-decker ice skating arena opens in Shelton
North America’s first double-decker ice skating arena with two full-size rinks (NHL) stacked one on top of the other officially opens to the public Jan. 31 in Shelton.
The arena is an addition to a 15-acre complex for family fun that has been renamed Sports Center of Connecticut, evolving from Golf Center of Connecticut.
...
Principals behind the center are Howard Saffan of Weston and Alan Phillips of Westport who both grew up as with a passion for sports, ice skating and hockey. “Around the world,” Phillips says, “people are going to copy us.”
As far as is known by the staff at USA Hockey, the U.S. Figure Skating Association and Hockey Canada, the Shelton concept is a prototype, the only one of its kind in North America and probably the world. .
The two rinks200 feet by 85 feet with Crystaplex dasher boards and seamless glass, all conforming to National Hockey League standardsare layered in a 90,000-square-foot arena overlooking the Housatonic River, embellished with a skylit atrium, limestone and maplewood décor and two, three-story elevators. Both rinks are lined by stadium seating, one accommodating 1,000, the other 500.
Even the rubber pucks are an advancement. They carry The Rinks crest and are coated with a composition that won’t leave black marks on the boards or the tempered glass girdling the rinks.
25 miles of tubing carry the refrigerant under the concrete that forms the base for the two ice surfaces, 7 inches thick, with independent computerized temperature controls.
Jay Fruzia, a Maine native, the iceman, is a Certified Ice Technician, an accreditation recognized by the NHL. For architect Joe Mingolello of Shelton, the challenge was to optimize the sight lines for spectators while amalgamating the steel trusses needed to support the upper rink and the four-ton ice-cleaning machines.
In the ice-skating off-season, April to August, the top rink converts to a all-purpose surface for inline skatingwhat used to be known as roller-skatingand can be used for activities like basketball, volleyball, arena football, indoor soccer and box lacrosse. Below it the ice surface remains year-around. .
The arena also incorporates:
• A 10,000-square-foot fitness center that becomes part of the World Gym network of 215 centers across the U.S. and around the world. The center overlooks the lower rink and offers a vista of the Housatonic River.
• A 4,000-square-foot conference center and banquet facility, also overlooking the lower arena. .
• A sports physical therapy facility operated by Rehabilitation Associates already based in Fairfield, Westport, Stratford, Milford and Shelton.
• A full pro shop operated by Sports Plus, one of the largest hockey/in-line pro shops in the Tri-State Area.
• An indoor-outdoor baseball academy with live hitting cages, pitching mounds and video analysis.
• An exhibition hall and a heated food court with Internet connections.
Like the Golf Center, the arena is open year-around. ...figure skating.... An extensive schedule of learn-to-skate instruction, hockey competition and coaching--and public skating is already in place. ...
http://www.sportscenterct.com/press-releases_etc/press_release.htm
"An 89,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art double-decker ice rink and sports complex
...$6 million-plus project "
http://www.allbusiness.com/north-america/united-states-connecticut/1002999-1.html
First double-decker ice skating arena opens in Shelton
North America’s first double-decker ice skating arena with two full-size rinks (NHL) stacked one on top of the other officially opens to the public Jan. 31 in Shelton.
The arena is an addition to a 15-acre complex for family fun that has been renamed Sports Center of Connecticut, evolving from Golf Center of Connecticut.
...
Principals behind the center are Howard Saffan of Weston and Alan Phillips of Westport who both grew up as with a passion for sports, ice skating and hockey. “Around the world,” Phillips says, “people are going to copy us.”
As far as is known by the staff at USA Hockey, the U.S. Figure Skating Association and Hockey Canada, the Shelton concept is a prototype, the only one of its kind in North America and probably the world. .
The two rinks200 feet by 85 feet with Crystaplex dasher boards and seamless glass, all conforming to National Hockey League standardsare layered in a 90,000-square-foot arena overlooking the Housatonic River, embellished with a skylit atrium, limestone and maplewood décor and two, three-story elevators. Both rinks are lined by stadium seating, one accommodating 1,000, the other 500.
Even the rubber pucks are an advancement. They carry The Rinks crest and are coated with a composition that won’t leave black marks on the boards or the tempered glass girdling the rinks.
25 miles of tubing carry the refrigerant under the concrete that forms the base for the two ice surfaces, 7 inches thick, with independent computerized temperature controls.
Jay Fruzia, a Maine native, the iceman, is a Certified Ice Technician, an accreditation recognized by the NHL. For architect Joe Mingolello of Shelton, the challenge was to optimize the sight lines for spectators while amalgamating the steel trusses needed to support the upper rink and the four-ton ice-cleaning machines.
In the ice-skating off-season, April to August, the top rink converts to a all-purpose surface for inline skatingwhat used to be known as roller-skatingand can be used for activities like basketball, volleyball, arena football, indoor soccer and box lacrosse. Below it the ice surface remains year-around. .
The arena also incorporates:
• A 10,000-square-foot fitness center that becomes part of the World Gym network of 215 centers across the U.S. and around the world. The center overlooks the lower rink and offers a vista of the Housatonic River.
• A 4,000-square-foot conference center and banquet facility, also overlooking the lower arena. .
• A sports physical therapy facility operated by Rehabilitation Associates already based in Fairfield, Westport, Stratford, Milford and Shelton.
• A full pro shop operated by Sports Plus, one of the largest hockey/in-line pro shops in the Tri-State Area.
• An indoor-outdoor baseball academy with live hitting cages, pitching mounds and video analysis.
• An exhibition hall and a heated food court with Internet connections.
Like the Golf Center, the arena is open year-around. ...figure skating.... An extensive schedule of learn-to-skate instruction, hockey competition and coaching--and public skating is already in place. ...
http://www.sportscenterct.com/press-releases_etc/press_release.htm
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