Scaled down community centre design on thin ice in Ontario city [Video]

The long-term effects of U.S. President Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again tariffs have put a scare into staff at the City of Pickering, but a staff recommendation for a scaled down new community centre in Seaton with the elimination of a twin-pad arena component was a bit too much fear-mongering for council, who sent staff back to the drawing board.

Staff will continue with design work without a specific direction from council and report back in September.

Perkins & Will, which was awarded consulting services work on the Seaton Community Centre & Library – the largest project in the city’s history and the first multipurpose recreation complex in Pickering since the Pickering Recreation Complex (now the Chestnut Hill Developments Recreation Complex) opened in 1983 –  confirmed to council this week the cost to develop a scaled down option that removes the twin-pad arena from the design would not exceed $250 million.

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