“This is one of the issues of contention right now around the council table.”,“What happened is that two organizations came up and said, ‘Yeah, we might be able to solve your issue,’ but from there the city should have gone out to bid, to give the opportunity to everybody to bid on the same project. The new, and needed, arena plans for Gatineau are bittersweet; time is running out for fans to experience this gem of an arena before the Olympiques open their next home.
The Guertin was built in 1957 and has been refurbished a few times since.But there was also a mood of relief for many councillors after the decade-plus of false starts and inaction on a permanent replacement. Unauthorized distribution, transmission or republication strictly prohibited.This website uses cookies to personalize your content (including ads), and allows us to analyze our traffic.
Gatineau council approves new $79M arena complex; home for Olympiques Back to video The new arena, to be completed by the fall of 2020, will be …
Franchise History. The Gatineau Olympiques are set to move into a new home in the coming years, as the Gatineau City Council has signed off on an arena deal. The Olympiques currently play at the Robert Guertin Centre, which opened in the 1957.The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) franchise is in line for a new venue, however, as the Gatineau City Council and Vision Multisports Outaouais …
Though that will be an exciting day, it will mean the epic story of this arena must close. Coun. Hull Arena was built in 1957 as the main arena for the city of Hull/Gatineau, Quebec. We ask you to keep your comments relevant and respectful. She wants the city to come up with a comprehensive plan on what to do about its crumbling neighbourhood arenas.But she also objects to the non-tendered nature of the project. A new 4,000-seat sports complex to replace the city of Gatineau's aging Robert Guertin arena will cost $79 million and would open in the fall of 2020, a Gatineau city committee heard Monday.The city's committee of the whole today heard more details about the agreement in principle reached with Vision Multisports Outaouais (VMSO) to replace the existing arena at 125 Rue de Carillon, the current home of the Gatineau Olympiques hockey team.VMSO's plans call for the building of a 4,000-seat arena for the Olympiques, as well as three community rinks at a new site across the street from Centre Sportif de Gatineau on Boulevard de la Cité.Construction would last 30 months and the facility would open in the fall of 2020.The total bill for the project would be $79 million, with VMSO paying $16 million, the city of Gatineau contributing $36.5 million and the province of Quebec providing $26 million.Those costs wouldn't include an additional $25 million needed to construct a six-storey parking garage and make infrastructure improvements to nearby sidewalks and streets, costs that would be borne by the city.To meet the needs of the future complex, it is expected there would need to be 1,560 parking spaces in the area.At present, the Robert Guertin arena has between 800 and 900 parking spaces.In addition to parking, some councillors expressed concern about nightly traffic in the area.The city will have to carry out a traffic impact study and work with the Société de transport de l'Outaouais on special packages to and from the arena.A special meeting of city council will vote on Wednesday as to whether the city will enter into a memorandum of understanding with VMSO to proceed with the project.It is a priority for CBC to create a website that is accessible to all Canadians including people with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive challenges.Closed Captioning and Described Video is available for many CBC shows offered on,New Gatineau arena would cost $79M, be ready in 2020,City of Gatineau reaches tentative agreement on new arena,Gatineau rejects Sensplex-style home for QMJHL's Olympiques,CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices.
But … we favoured one over the other and we started negotiating one-on-one, on that.”.Coun. Please try again,Postmedia is committed to maintaining a lively but civil forum for discussion and encourage all readers to share their views on our articles. I don’t want to waste one second looking for another scenario. Gilles Carpentier said his constituents are “fed up with seeing city councils succeed each other without solving the problem.”,And Olympiques co-owner Alain Sear called the project “excellent,” adding: “The Olympiques completely support this.
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“But all of them have done it with a bidding process, which Gatineau is not doing.”,There will be bids on different phases of construction, she said, but not on the overall choice of project. As well, the Rapibus runs right past it.The city also promises to pay $2.1 million to rent ice time at the smaller three rinks — a cost it says it will cover by closing older community rinks.VMSO starts with a 25-year lease on the site, which can be extended at the city’s discretion.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.There was an error, please provide a valid email address.A welcome email is on its way.