PHOTO: SUPPLIED An artist’s impression of the $300m metro sports facility, which is scheduled to open in 2021.
Work is well under way to transform an empty central city site into Christchurch’s premier public sporting facility.
The $301 million metro sports facility, being built on a site bordered by Moorehouse Ave and St Asaph and Antigua streets, is on schedule to be completed by the end of 2021.
More than 15,000 cubic metres of material has so far been dug out of the ground to make way for the 50-metre pool, dive pool and leisure water area, an Ōtākaro Ltd spokesperson said. The excavation was about 65 per cent complete.
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