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The Municipality of North Perth is working with consultants, SHIFT Landscape Architecture, to explore design options for a park on the Listowel Memorial Arena site. The arena is scheduled for demolition in 2021 and in its place, the Municipality hopes to develop a park for the community. To help shape the future park space, we are looking for your input on two preliminary design options presented on this page. There are feedback tools and a survey available below as well. Thank you for taking the time to engage with this project.
History of the Memorial Arena
The Memorial Arena was built in place of a former arena structure that collapsed on February 28, 1959, while a boys' hockey team was playing a scrimmage game. Eight lives were lost in the tragedy, including seven young players along with the referee/recreation director.
Once the arena is removed, the intent is for the site to become a park space that preserves the memory of the lives lost and affected by the collapse, while also continuing to be a space that can serve the community into the future.
Design Options
The video below, along with the links under the documents section on the right of this page, include information about the two design options for the Memorial Arena Park space. Once you have had a chance to review the information, please fill out the survey at the bottom of this page and leave any ideas or comments that you may have about the future of the site.
The Municipality of North Perth is working with consultants, SHIFT Landscape Architecture, to explore design options for a park on the Listowel Memorial Arena site. The arena is scheduled for demolition in 2021 and in its place, the Municipality hopes to develop a park for the community. To help shape the future park space, we are looking for your input on two preliminary design options presented on this page. There are feedback tools and a survey available below as well. Thank you for taking the time to engage with this project.
History of the Memorial Arena
The Memorial Arena was built in place of a former arena structure that collapsed on February 28, 1959, while a boys' hockey team was playing a scrimmage game. Eight lives were lost in the tragedy, including seven young players along with the referee/recreation director.
Once the arena is removed, the intent is for the site to become a park space that preserves the memory of the lives lost and affected by the collapse, while also continuing to be a space that can serve the community into the future.
Design Options
The video below, along with the links under the documents section on the right of this page, include information about the two design options for the Memorial Arena Park space. Once you have had a chance to review the information, please fill out the survey at the bottom of this page and leave any ideas or comments that you may have about the future of the site.
The design team met with Friends of '59 and the Recreation Advisory Committee (RAC) in November to kick-off the project.
With the initial information from Friends of '59, RAC, and Municipal Staff, two design options for the park have been created. These two options are presented on this page.
We will collect your feedback on the two design options and use it to create one final design concept for the Memorial Arena Park site. This will be presented on this page to get additional feedback, with revisions made to the design as needed.
The final design option will be presented to North Perth Council in late winter/early spring 2021.
Following a presentation to Council, the final design concept will be used to budget for the project and develop a construction plan. Timelines for the construction of the park are not known at this time.