Lion’s Head Arena Renovation Project | Municipality of Northern Bruce Peninsula

Community Consultation Outcomes - April, 2022

Based on the outcomes from community consultations, the most current design considerations include:

Bringing dressing rooms up to ice level on West wall, for accessibility purposes
Creating larger dressing rooms to accommodate larger teams
Ensuring accessibility throughout the building
Relocating ice resurfacer room and adding storage
Incorporating Lion’s Head Library into Community Centre
Creating a community use space for athletics, meetings, community functions
Integrating Friendship Club to North end of Arena, with their own independent facility
Outdoor Walking Track

Further considerations are included and outlined here.

Next Steps

The RFP process is underway for hiring a Construction Management firm.
Schematic and final design processes underway.
Final floorplans and arena designs will be used to obtain more specific cost estimates.
Determination of Project construction schedule.
Issuance of building permits following design process, Council approval of final costs estimates and mobilization of Construction Management firm.

Project History

2012 Plans are drawn up in preparation for the FedDev Community Infrastructure Improvement Fund application for the Lion’s Head and District Community Centre and Arena.
At the time the application was submitted, August 21, 2012, the drawings (seen below) were chosen by Council. This grant submission was unfortunately unsuccessful.
On June 9, 2015, the same proposal was brought forward for the Canada 150 Community Infrastructure Program. This grant submission was unfortunately unsuccessful.
In a resolution passed on September 23, 2019, Council decided to move forward with this same design in a new grant application for the Community, Culture and Recreation Stream of the Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program.
With this final application almost 10 years, in 2020 the Municipality was successful in securing $4.9 million in funding for Arena renovations.
The Municipality committed to working with the Arena users, community organizations, and the public, to ensure the final plans for the arena reflect the needs of the community moving forward.
Public engagement meetings specific to the project were held during the first two weeks of January 2022. These included focus groups and 1:1 interviews with Arena and Community Centre users.
A public survey was available on the Municipality website for a two-week period in February 2022
The Consultants, MGA, met with Municipal staff to receive their feedback in early March 2022.
Salter Pion Architects were selected to commence with a construction management method for the design and construction of the project in February 2023.
Conceptual Plan and programming space determination completed.
The project management team is meeting bi-weekly to advance the project and update the project schedule.
Council capped the construction cost of the Lion’s Head Arena Project at $10 million.
Various studies and reports such as geotechnical, designated substances, septic system design is underway.
Current conceptual plan displayed below.

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