Stadium construction costs will go up as time goes on: developer
Posted Jan 28, 2012 08:51:49 AM.
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The longer it takes to make a decision, the more it will cost the city to build a stadium in Halifax, according to a local developer.
John Volcko of PCL Constructors Canada Inc. tells The Chronicle Herald a project of this scale would take 15 months, and that’s a best case scenario.
He adds that’s only if the site needs minimal preparation and if architectural designs are already underway.
Building the stadium at Commodore Drive, near Dartmouth Crossing, would help keep the timeline intact, but building at Shannon Park, where rock would need to be blasted and land ownership issues addressed, would add an additional three to five months to the project, bringing the total construction period up to 20 months.
In 2006, PCL constructors fast-tracked the construction of the 20,000 seat BMO Field in Toronto so that it was completed in 14 months.
Volcko tells the paper if the stadium is going to be ready for the 2014 FIFA U-20 women’s world cup, the precursor to the 2015 FIFA women’s world cup, then councilor’s needs to make up their minds in the next couple weeks.
The municipality put out the call this week for potential partners interested in helping to finance the proposed multi-use stadium and has until March 31st before it has to report back to the Canadian Soccer Association.
