The design incorporates the best, well-tested features and spectator amenities of the many new-generation entertainment and sports centres built across North America over the past decade. It represents the leading-edge of facilities now being designed.
Features include: private suites, event suites, club seats, quality food outlets, a club seat lounge and a restaurant and sports bar - all surrounding the action. It will also include three concourses, retail outlets, ample washrooms and easy entry and exit. It will be one of the most modern, state-of-the-art facilities in North America.
The Centre provides excellent sight lines from every seat, superb acoustics for concerts and the best ambience and amenities for sports of all kinds - hockey, basketball, curling, arena football, lacrosse, indoor soccer - including international and championship events like World Junior Hockey and the Brier.
It is also flexible. It can accommodate up to 17,000 concert-goers, but can just as easily be curtained to create an intimate concert entertainment setting for audiences as small as 2,500.
The ice surface converts from standard North American professional hockey dimensions (85 ft. by 200 ft.) to international hockey dimensions (100 ft. by 200 ft.). The rinkboards and first six rows of seating are easily removed to create 30,000 square feet of exhibition floor space.
Four separate pedestrian bridges over Hargrave, Graham and Donald Streets connect the Centre to the downtown walkway system creating a new hub that links the facility with major downtown shopping centres, indoor parking, several hotels and major office towers.
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