Township asset-replacement fund to pay for most of $15M Cavan Monaghan arena
MILLBROOK -- The design of the new Cavan Monaghan Community Centre was unveiled to the public in Millbrook on Tuesday night.
The plans call for a new $15-million centre with an ice pad, a banquet hall, a fitness facility and a running track.
Construction is expected to begin in spring 2018 on a site next to the Cavan Monaghan Municipal Office on County Road 10 in Millbrook.
It’s expected to open in August 2019.
It will replace the existing township community centre in Millbrook that was outdated and on a landlocked site.
Scott McFadden, the mayor of Cavan Monaghan Township, said on Tuesday that township council has the money to pay for the new facility.
He said council will use $14 million from an asset-replacement fund that should reach $25 million by the end of 2017 (the final $1 million will be collected through fundraising, he said).
McFadden said township council has been saving revenues from the Shorelines Slots at Kawartha Downs for several years, to replace public facilities (they’re also saving for a new fire hall in Millbrook and an expanded public works yard, he said).
He also said the 10-acre property for the community centre was sold to the township for $1 by the developer that is building a subdivision in the area.
The developer, Cortel Group, already has permission to build 345 houses south of Fallis Line.
McFadden said there will be a C-shaped subdivision built around the municipal offices and the new community centre.
He said that eventually, there will be somewhere between 600 and 1,000 more homes built in Millbrook in addition to the 345.
There could also be a second phase of development for the community centre, McFadden said: the township is considering adding a splash pad, a pool or a second ice sheet.
They’re designing the building with that second phase in mind, although McFadden said he didn’t know when that phase would be built.
Township council approved the architectural plans for the first phase of the community centre earlier this month, following a sixmonth design process.
The Toronto firm McLennan Jaunkalns Miller Architects has developed the design. This firm designed the new North Kawartha Community Centre in Apsley and has several aquatic centres and wellness centres in its portfolio.