10-29-2015, 04:05 PM
Quote:Location issue looms over multiplex meetings
Early in the fifth meeting in five months for a task force trying to gather input on what Cambridge residents want in a sports multiplex to be built on Conestoga College land at Highway 401, there was no escape from the lingering debate about the edge-of-town site.
Will it really be just a 15-minute drive for most Cambridge residents?
"That time included no allowance for traffic," Hespeler resident and longtime environmental planning consultant Derek Coleman suggested at city hall on Tuesday. "That time was the time it took to get there at three o'clock in the morning."
So location was again before a committee with its pulse-taking gaze mainly aimed on design possibilities for this two or four-rink proposed complex that could run somewhere between $54-million and $74-million.
The problem with going anywhere else is that there aren't that many suitable sites closer to town. The old Rauscher Plating site in Hespeler, maybe the flea market on Hespeler Road, maybe something on Franklin, but that's about it. Anything else is going to cost a fortune in property acquisition.