Phase 2 of sports complex out for tender
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This article was published 22/04/2024 (732 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
The City of Brandon is gearing up for the second phase of work on the Maple Leaf Sports Complex at the corner of First Street North and Veterans Way.
Last week, the city issued a tender looking for a contractor to complete phase two by May 30, 2025.
The second phase will involve the construction of a FIFA-sized soccer pitch featuring artificial turf, a lighting system, a scoreboard, bleachers, covered benches and fencing. FIFA is the international organizing body for soccer, which publishes a set of specifications for fields hosting games.
Assiniboine Community College has entered a $475,000, 15-year deal to name the field after its sports teams, which are known as the Cougars. That deal also gives ACC’s teams preferential access to the field for practice and game times.
Also included in phase two is the construction of two cricket fields with a practice batting area, trails and paths, road approaches to the site, the completion of a flood control dike, the installation of irrigation and drainage systems, electrical work and the sodding of pitches with natural turf.
According to the tender document, earthworks along the northern edge of the site cannot be completed until BellMTS completes the relocation of cables this spring. Internet service provider RFNOW is sponsoring telecommunications services on site and will be installing underground connections sometime during this year’s construction schedule.
On top of that, the contractor for the second phase will have to share the site with the contractor for phase one as it corrects deficiencies from last year’s work on the site until June.
They’ll also have to share the worksite with Ledcor, which has been contracted to build the complex’s storage building. That construction is expected to start this spring and finished before next spring.
Last August, city staff told Brandon City Council that the complex was expected to be operational by spring 2025. At that time, construction was said to be $400,000 under budget.
Phase one of the complex, which started construction in May 2023, includes five soccer fields, an ultimate frisbee field and several improvements to the earthworks on the site.
The $16.6 million in funding for the complex has come from the municipal ($6 million), provincial ($6.7 million) and federal ($3.9 million) levels of government.
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