Key Building Features and Community Benefits
KEY BUILDING FEATURES
- Total complex is 189,000 square feet, on Spence Street between Ellice and Portage
- Complex construction and renovation is $40 million
- Duckworth Centre renovations begin Spring 2014 for completion in Fall 2014
- RecPlex construction completion for Fall 2014- ribbon cutting June 17, 2014
- The University of Â鶹´«Ã½ Community Renewal Corporation is spearheading development of the project
NEW RECPLEX
- New three story structure with approximately 179,000 square feet
- A large multi-use artificial turf field that can be converted to three cross court fields
- Will also accommodate soccer, football, ultimate, baseball and other field sports
- A regulation four-lane 60 meter rubberized sprint track
- Two multi-events rooms, including a soundproofed room for drumming and pow wow groups
- A studio for activities such as fitness classes and dance
- Multi-media lounge space for students and visitors
- Food and beverage kiosks
- New underground parkade that can accommodate 190 vehicles
- energy efficient with targeted Silver LEED construction
KEY BUILDING USES AND COMMUNITY BENEFITS
- Creates recreation and wellness destination for the inner city with unique Community Charter guaranteeing access for community youth
- Augments UÂ鶹´«Ã½'s developing multidisciplinary healthy campus initiative
- Enhances student sports programs, including upgraded facilities for Wesmen athletes and increased intramural sport programming for UÂ鶹´«Ã½ students and staff
- Increases UÂ鶹´«Ã½'s Inner City Wesmen sports program allowing hundreds of area youth to play basketball, volleyball, soccer, baseball, wrestling and other sports at no cost (program supported by private donations to UÂ鶹´«Ã½'s new Sport for All Fund)
- Creates new research, teaching and student practicum and employment opportunities for all faculties and specifically in UÂ鶹´«Ã½'s new Faculty of Kinesiology
- Offers new home for UÂ鶹´«Ã½'s popular Eco-Kids Summer Camp which attracts hundreds of inner city children annually (free - supported by private donations)
- Offers Collegiate and Model School students new facilities and enhanced recreation programming (UÂ鶹´«Ã½'s high school on campus)
- Adds much needed state-of-the-art soccer facility available for rent to numerous Â鶹´«Ã½ sports groups