Cost-overruns forced the Sudbury Community Arena to shrink in scope, building issues delayed its opening by a year and controversy dogged its financing and construction
The Sudbury Community Arena’s construction started off as a hopeful enterprise that brought out the best in the community.
Whereas the Sudbury Community Arena proceeded after its costs ballooned, with city council settling on a smaller project than initially anticipated, it remains to be seen what will become of the city’s new arena/events centre project. Making the case for the new arenas The Sudbury Community Arena was to replace the Stanley Stadium in Copper Cliff, which opened Jan. 15, 1935.
This latest time around, the push for a new arena started approximately 10 years ago, and amplified in 2016, when city council began considering a handful of big projects.The main push for a new arena was that the Sudbury Community Arena wasn’t meeting modern needs. Initial payment plans for the new arenas Community fundraising appears to have been a key pillar in the Sudbury Community Arena’s construction more than 70 years ago.
“It is time now to fulfill an obligation squarely facing a city of this size and measure of prosperity. It is time to build a civic centre where we may develop a richer and fuller community life, where there can be recreation and entertainment for all, and where the children may enjoy advantages second to none in the land.”
The project’s budget by 1948 was $1 million, of which the city was anticipated to put up half or more of its cost, projected to be covered by arena revenue, with no impact to tax bills. The campaign for funds began on April 4, 1949, when a team of 250 canvassers began enlisting donors. Their effort kicked off with an organizational banquet at the Caruso Club.
As funds began coming in, the scope of the arena changed several times as the city grappled with how to pay for it. The legality of the $700,000 debenture was called into question, and fundraising lagged. The old Central Public School came down to make way for the arena, at which time Keaney is quoted in a newspaper as calling all the problems leading up to its construction as being “water under the bridge now.”
The Sudbury Daily Star’s Aug. 17, 1951, front-page headline read, “Aldermen Clash As Rink Discussed.” In January 1952, the accounting mess that accompanied the arena project was tackled by city council, when the arena manager admitted certain orders were placed without being sanctioned. The KED has also faced legal challenges, which were all dismissed. The latest case, filed by the Minnow Lake Restoration Group, was called “entirely without merit.”
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