PHOTO: SUPPLIED An artist’s impressions of the metro sports facility
Christchurch’s highly-anticipated metro sports centre could be delayed by up to a year due to the effects of coronavirus.
The $301 million central city project was to have been built by late-2021 but is now expected to be completed sometime in 2022 – though authorities can not yet say exactly when that will be.
Covid-19 lockdown restrictions meant workers were unable to get on site from late March until late April and were slowed by restrictions when they returned to the site. Meanwhile the pandemic put some overseas production of materials on hold.
The centre will feature a 10-lane, 50-metre pool with 1000 seats for spectators, a 20m by 25m diving pool, five hydroslides and several indoor courts for various sports. Australian company CPB is building it and Crown rebuild company Ōtākaro is managing it.
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