New arenas

[three dog night]

With Sudbury and Brantford planning new arenas is their other cities planning ones or renovation.

Click to read more...

 

[AttackSound]

With Sudbury and Brantford planning new arenas is their other cities planning ones or renovation.

Owen Sound should start seeing some renovations happen over the next decade with the renewed lease made with the city and the Attack.

The new lease was signed April 29th of this year and now gives the team and the city a decade to continue forward to with additional upgrades to the J.D. MacArthur Arena inside the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre. What that would include hasn't been announced but I would think the replacement of the boards and glass would be part of any renovation project that may materialize in that time frame.

 

[the dog]

Maybe kitchener reading something about it and Peterborough

 

[OMG67]

Ottawa will have a new one soon. They are about to enter Phase II of the Lansdowne Project. The North Side Stands of the football stadium will be torn down. Those stands form the foundation of the arena roof. The new arena will be constructed beyond the East end zone of the stadium. The new North Side Stands will be erected more steep. Then they will erect the mixed use Commercial/Residential Condo Buildings.

The first stage of that new phase will be to build the arena. Expected completion in during the 2027-28 season.

 

[Section5Petes]

With Sudbury and Brantford planning new arenas is their other cities planning ones or renovation.

The city of Peterborough is currently waiting on the consulting firm to finalize the exact downtown location options and then council will vote on the location for the arena and the process can continue to replace the PMC

 

[the dog]

How's brampton arena video board and sound system?

 

[three dog night]

How's brampton arena video board and sound system?

Probably need an upgrade the rink has better lighting than Missy

Probably need an upgrade the rink has better lighting than Missy

 

[three dog night]

I see a new video board and ribbon board at the MerIran Centre.

 

[PhlyerPhanatic31]

Budweiser Gardens is slated for upgrades

 

[the dog]

I see a new video board and ribbon board at the MerIran Centre.

Is that just a guess?

 

[the dog]

Top 3 teams that have best video scoreboard in ohl

 

[Section5Petes]

Top 3 teams that have best video scoreboard in ohl

Peterborough, Oshawa, Kitchener, Saginaw, Soo

 

[HockeyPops]

Anyone who recently bid has a good scoreboard. There is no point bidding if you don't.

 

[Helvigster]

Anyone who recently bid has a good scoreboard. There is no point bidding if you don't.

Hamilton put in a bid despite how old their scoreboard was, kind of funny looking back on it now

 

[Buttsy]

Ottawa will have a new one soon. They are about to enter Phase II of the Lansdowne Project. The North Side Stands of the football stadium will be torn down. Those stands form the foundation of the arena roof. The new arena will be constructed beyond the East end zone of the stadium. The new North Side Stands will be erected more steep. Then they will erect the mixed use Commercial/Residential Condo Buildings.

The first stage of that new phase will be to build the arena. Expected completion in during the 2027-28 season.

Curious have they announced seating capacity for the new arena yet?

 

[OMG67]

Curious have they announced seating capacity for the new arena yet?

5500 but I am not sure how they land on that number. I know there are significant private box capacity but they usually double the tickets to seats for boxes. Plus I don’t know what they are doing for standing room etc. But, I think 5500 is a perfect number. It is big enough to make decent revenue and small enough to create scarcity which “should” allow them to move away from the huge push on group sales and discounts. It may allow them to change their target market enough to cultivate a true fanbase compared to what it is now, mostly casual fans that don’t really follow the league at all.

 

[Buttsy]

But, I think 5500 is a perfect number.

I totally agree the perfect size OHL rink. Ottawa also will always have an 18-20K arena for the Sens and concert dates etc. In London its a bit different as we needed more then just an arena. However in hindsight another 2500 seats for the Knights wouldn't have hurt either?