Charlottetown’s long-awaited Simmons Sports Centre finally opening to the public [Video]

Skates will soon hit the ice surface at Charlottetown’s new Simmons Sports Centre. 

The city said in a news release that work to repair a leak in the arena’s ice-making infrastructure is now complete. 

The new building will be open to the public at 3 p.m. Monday, the release states. 

The $36-million sports centre will be open year-round, and features an NHL-sized rink with seating for around 600 people, an indoor walking track, meeting rooms and an outdoor swimming pool that will open next summer. 

The building was originally set to open Oct. 14. The city pushed that back indefinitely to allow contractors to find and repair a leak in the pipes within the arena’s concrete ice surface slab, which meant staff couldn’t make ice.

Techniques like thermal imaging were used to …