The Ontario Construction Report – October 2009 – PAGE OCR 9
MasterCard
concept ultimately grew to
be a 260,000 sq. ft. project.
Centre for Hockey
More improvements are
on the way. “Space is there
Excellence
for a full service restaurant,”
and the second floor will
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also have meeting rooms for
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general use and for the Na-
tional Hockey League Play-
The new ice surfaces added another 18,000 sq. ft. ers Association.
opened in time for the of space. The facility has a state-
Toronto Maple Leafs train- “We introduced a finan- of-the art heat recovery sys-
ing camp in September cial manager to work on the tem, which will also supply
2009. business plan and find power to air condition office
Burns said originally the sources of financing. spaces, hot water, dehumid-
Lakeshore Lions hoped to “Then, in 2006, Hockey ifiers, and more. “With a
work out a land deal with Canada joined the project,” new season in play this fa-
the City of Toronto and The Burns said. “They wanted
cilities,” Leafs GM Brian architect for the Toronto tems . . . we had to complete
cility is bound to produce a
Toronto District School one of the pads to be an
Burke told the Toronto Star. Maple Leafs and Toronto several mechanical re-
winning team!” Burns said.
Board to develop land near Olympic-sized arena, capa-
“It’s part of a culture of win- Marlies tenant fit-up spaces designs.”
their existing arena, previ- ble of hosting international
ning and this goes a long within the building. He said The original 160,000
ously owned by a distillery. events.”
way toward that. It says (to Maple Leaf Sports and En-
“The city passed a resolu- As the project grew,
players) this is the big tertainment hired Mulvey &
tion,” he said. “They would costs continued to rise, and
leagues and this is what we Benani for electrical engi-
consider a four-pad arena by the time work started in
Congratulations to
expect.” neering and TMP for me-
provided it didn’t cost the 2007 the budget had in-
Of course community chanical services. “NORR
Giffels Design-Build Inc.
city any money.” creased to $33.1million.
groups and teams also bene- also co-ordinated the overall
However, the Leafs saw With escalations and addi-
fit. For example, The Etobi- design team and the prepa-
potential, and suggested to tional upgrades incorporated
coke Dolphins Girls Hockey ration of construction docu-
Burns they would like to into the building during the
Association will use the fa- ments for the MLSE spaces
have space included for the 18-month construction
cilities for their house We also administered the
Leafs and Toronto Malies to process, the project’s final
league, with more than 700 construction phase of the
practice, along with fitness cost reached $38million,
players, and MasterCard is Leafs and Marlies spaces.”
and workout areas for both Burns said.
contributing 250 hours of At Giffels, Ken Burns
teams. All of this had to be
ice time annually for grass- said the project, with many
Things kept growing. funded without a cent of
roots hockey programs. participants and interests,
“The building started to public money. Fortunately,
Matthew Delean, Princi- proved to be a true chal-
morph,” Burns said. “The the Leafs and corporate part-
pal of Sports and Recreation lenge, as the business plan
Hockey Hall of Fame said ners have helped to ensure
atNORR Limited (also an needed to be changed to ac-
they would like some space the project’s viability. “It’s
Ingenium Group Company) commodate more debt and a
for archiving material, so we the Cadillac of training fa-
said his company served as much-larger scope. “We
had to work with the plan-
ning department, and within
site limitations,” he said.
As well, as the project
evolved, “there was a whole
other level of complexity in
making sure the tenant area
were using environmentally
efficient mechanical sys-
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Giffels Design-Build Inc.
on the
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