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The ground breaking ceremony – June 12th 2009
Call for Proposals (closed)
Please note: Submission deadline Extended until Wednesday February 10th at 4pm
The Halifax Regional Municipality’s Department of Cultural Affairs, in conjunction with the Steering Committee of the Prospect Road Community Centre are seeking proposals that possess strong visual presence and community engagement to animate the Prospect Community Centre, currently under construction.
The Public Art Policy
HRM’s Public Art Policy states that public art is to be included as a component of any new municipal construction project.
Although the Prospect Community Centre budget planning process predates the passing of the Public Art Policy (September 2008), the intent of this Request for Proposals is to provide public art as a component of the construction process, reflecting the spirit of the policy.
To learn more about this opportunity please download the full document: PDF , or Plain Text
Prospect Community Centre taking shape!
Right before our very eyes the new Prospect Community Centre is rising from the ground. We are pleased to announce that the project is right on schedule with the facility slated to open late spring / early summer 2010.
Click Here to View Photos of the construction progress as of Sept. 2009
About the Prospect Road Community Centre
The soon-to-be Prospect Road and Area Community Centre is a new multipurpose neighbourhood recreational facility located within District 22 area of the Halifax Regional Municipality.
Situated between the Hatchet Lake Fire Station and Prospect Road Elementary School, the Centre is to serve as the focal point for community information, events and activities in this predominately rural area.
Once completed in 2010 the Community Centre will include such amenities as:
- A gymnasium and multi purpose space
- HRM Recreation programming
- A weight and fitness room
- Meeting / activity space for local clubs and other organized activities
- Administrative space
- An indoor community street
Update: February 18th 2009:
Great news!
Thu. Apr 23 – 7:19 AM – From http://thechronicleherald.ca/Metro/1118128.html
Eight members of the volunteer board spearheading the construction of the $8.5-million Prospect Road Community Centre left a Halifax Regional Council meeting happy Tuesday night.
Council approved a recommendation to award the tender to Bird Construction Co. for a total tender price of $6,297,788.84.
Eight companies bid for the project.
Construction of the multi-purpose recreation centre is slated to begin within the next couple of months, with a completion target of the summer of 2010.
Located between the Hatchet Lake Fire Hall and the Prospect Road Elementary School, the municipally-owned centre will include a gymnasium, meeting rooms, a fitness centre and a kitchen.
Construction to start soon on $8.5-million facility
for Chronicle Herald
The spanking new $8.5-million Prospect Road Community Centre will meet the recreational and social needs of area residents, says the chairwoman of centre’s steering committee.
“It’s kind of going to be the focal point to pull all the communities together,” Barb Allen said Wednesday. “Other than schools, we don’t have any kind of public facilities, really, so it’s going to be all things to all people, we hope.”
Construction for the multi-purpose community recreation centre is slated to begin within the next couple of months with a completion target of summer 2010.
Formed in 2005, the steering committee had done lots of fundraising through community events.
“There’s been an area rate which covers a lot of the capital cost as a community contribution,” Ms. Allen said.
“The community is very excited; they know the plot’s there and it’s going to be the gateway onto the Western Commons when they’re established.”
Situated between the Hatchet Lake Fire Hall and the Prospect Road Elementary School, the municipality-owned centre, to be run by a volunteer community board, will include a high school-sized gymnasium, meeting rooms, a fitness centre and a kitchen.
“Our hope is to have lots of after-school programs and all kinds of things that will draw in the school community, too,” Ms. Allen said.
Next Tuesday, the committee will go before regional council to get approval for the awarding of the tender.
The facility will be designed to meet or exceed LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification and will have geothermal systems.
“It will act as an education piece to the community too, to just see how to do things right,” Ms. Allen said.
And a solar skylight will make the centre very inviting, she said.
“Hopefully, there will be community art pieces in there . . . and local artists can show their works, just something for everybody,” Ms. Allen said.
The construction tender for the Prospect Road Community Centre has been issued today, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009. http://halifax.ca/procurement/tenders3.asp
We are very pleased to see this project milestone reached, given the determination and commitment of everybody involved.
Thanks to the support of our Councillor, Reg Rankin, HRM staff, members of the Prospect Road Community Centre Steering Committee, the ROC Board members and the community at large, we have moved this project from a dream to a reality. The community centre once completed, will certainly act as a focal point for community events and activities.
It will be an exciting year ahead as we see the building take shape.
We hope that local contractors will bid on the tender – # 09-152
The tentative closing date for the tender is March 19, 2009.
