Summerside Wellness Centre
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| Consolidated Credit Union Place | |
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| Location | 511 Notre Dame Street Summerside, PEI C1N 1T2 |
| Broke ground | October 20, 2002 |
| Opened | March 1, 2007 |
| Owner | City of Summerside |
| Construction cost | C$42.5 million |
| Architect | WHW Architects |
| Tenants | Summerside Western Capitals (MJAHL) (2007-present) SAMHA (Hockey PEI) (2007-present) Summerside Figure Skating Club (2007-present) Summerside CCU Dolphins Swim Club (2006 - present) Youth Bowling Council (2007 - present) various other leagues. |
| Capacity | Hockey over 4,200 Basketball over 4,250 Volleyball 750 Swimming 400 Concert approximately 5,250 |
Consolidated Credit Union Place (formerly Known as the Summerside Wellness Centre) is a multi purpose facility that opened in two stages in April of 2006 in the City of Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada. It contains an aquatic centre, meeting and convention rooms and fitness centre and in 2007 with 2 NHL size ice surface arenas, bowling lanes and indoor walking track. The swimming pool portion (Phase 1) consists of a 25 metre competition pool, leisure pool, a water slide, a water mushroom, a hot tub, steam room, and sauna. There is also a conference centre over 4000 square feet in size, and a gym with 2 squash courts.
The second portion (Phase 2), the Arenas, were designed to replace Cahill Stadium and Steele Arena.
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[edit] History
The 3750 seat stadium opened March 1, 2007, featuring a game between divisional rivals the Summerside Western Capitals, and Charlottetown Abbies. The Caps won the game 11-3 in front of 3417 fans. The ice surface measures 200 x 85 Ft (61 x 26 m). The rink has 10 luxury boxes lining the east wall, and has 8 foot high glass surrounding the entire ice surface. The rink employs angled lights for the benefit of players in sports such as Volleyball, so the lights do not shine into their eyes, and the scoreboard retracts into the rafters quite easily for shows requiring a high ceiling, such as a Monster Truck event. There is also a running track at the top of the seating bowl. These features make no difference for the game of hockey, but make the facility much more attractive in its mission of being a multifunction facility. The secondary ice surface consists of a 200 x 85 Ft (61 x 26 m) rink, as well as bleacher style seating for approximately 700 people. The secondary ice surface opened March 2, 2007. A new set of bowling lanes was opened in the facility as a replacement to the old lanes at Cahill Stadium.
In July 2008 a restaurant and bar will opening in near the main entrance to the centre. This will replace the existing cafe that is still in operation now. The cafe features soups, sandwiches, home-made baked good and cold and hot beverages. The new restaurant will have a full service bar and a large menu ranging from steak to burgers. Fanatic has recently opened in the facility and it is a boutique where hockey fans can purchase noise makers, hockey jerseys and shirts and other memorabilia. Currently, catering is available through the Veterans' Convention Centre (convention portion of the facility).
There was a large explosion on the roof during construction, setting the construction back many months. The facility cost the City of Summerside approximately C$36 million, shared between the Municipal, Provincial, and Federal Governments.
[edit] Name Change
On Friday, February 29, 2008 the City of Summerside announced a 10 year deal that would see the Credit Union have the rights to the naming of the facility. This name replaced Summerside Wellness Center. Another part of the deal saw all credit union members from around the world receive a 20% discount on public events.
[edit] Events
Summerside and Credit Union Place are currently in the final process of the bid for the 2010 Royal Bank Cup. In July 2008, The Blind Boys of Alabama will host a concert in the main arena. On September 27, 2008, the facility will play host to an NHL exhibition game between the New York Islanders and the Florida Panthers[1].
[edit] References
- ^ Journal Pioneer. NHL exhibition game in Summerside has been in works for a while
