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Feast your eyes on the swank new multimillion dollar pavilion set to rise up beside the Oval next winter.
Approved by city council earlier this week, the building is part of phase two of the Oval’s construction on the North Common. Once complete, it will house equipment, staff offices, washrooms and skate rental and sharpening facilities. The pavilion will replace the temporary trailers next to the Emera Oval that currently provide those services.
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Though councillor Matt Whitman balked at the pavilion’s $2.5-million price tag, the tender to lowest bidder Seagate Construction Inc. was approved at Tuesday’s Regional Council meeting 15 to one.
When complete, the new pavilion will be approximately 6,750 square feet. About 2,000 of those square feet will be dedicated to covered outdoor space. The rest will be indoor, heated space. The whole building will host outdoor and indoor programs and activities for the public year round.
According to city figures, there were 135,000 Oval users last year. The new pavilion is scheduled to be completed by the end of November—just in time for skating (and Beaver Tail) season.
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This article appears in Apr 30 – May 6, 2015.
Will the waste heat from the chillers be used to heat this facility? Seems like a no brainer to me. The chillers put enough wasted heat into the air to heat an apartment building.
Actually, that was discussed at council and the answer is no. The city didn’t buy the kind of chillers where you can redirect that waste heat when they installed the Oval. At the time, no one thought it would be permanent. To upgrade the system would be require digging everything up and cost a bunch more money.
They should probably pave in some parking spaces on one of the ball fields while they’re at it.
Too bad about the chillers, that would have brought the carbon footprint down considerably.
@Jacob Boon
This site was intended to be temporary, but the chillers were to be distributed around the province after the games to permanent facilities, so why would they not have purchased a permanent type of chiller?
The last article I read on The Coast about The Oval referred to Beaver Tails as “cheap, shitty food” because the co-owner of The Food Wolf wasn’t able to secure a spot for her own food truck. I think in part because of her misunderstanding the electrical requirements.
Nukka does however welcome the Pavilion and still has a place in his heart for the original Pavilion.
Thanks for the reminder, Nukka. If I’m paying foodtruck prices for food I want table service and a seat to come with it. And not pay 2 bucks to get in.
Its probably easy for her to talk shit about other peoples employment (beaver tails) when she’s got that plum gov’t job. People, eh?
Ha ha, no doubt I will suffer in the ‘like’ department. How dare I question the patron saint of foodtruck.
@MacDuffVirgo911
You know, I’m not sure. Before my time. But you raise a good point. This might be one of those no-win scenarios. Let me dig around and ask some questions next week.