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Improvements Coming to Norwich Community Centre

Sunday, 2 June 2013 11:10

Improvements are on the way for the Norwich Community Centre. Construction crews will be descending on the parking lot Monday morning for a $300,000 resurfacing project. Director of Community Development Pat Hovorka says the resurfacing should take about two weeks. "That means basically excavating all the existing asphalt that is situated in the parking lot now and pulverizing that, bringing everything up to grade, probably with a few additional catch basins that we're going to add to it so we can enhance our drainage capabilities throughout the centre." Hovorka says patrons coming into the arena will need to use the parking lot at the north end of the building while resurfacing takes place. The parking lot rehabilitation will be completed by Viewcon Construction out of Woodstock. He says inside they will be switching over to florescent lighting. "We're probably going to run that for the next 7 or 8 years before we switch over again to LED. Our first choice is LED lighting but at the moment it's just too cost prohibitive, so we're going to stick with florescent which we're pretty excited about." Hovorka says the switch over will also qualify the Community Centre to receive an energy payback which he estimates will be available to them within 18 months. On top of those projects staff will also be doing some exterior painting and addition of outdoor benches, as well as an accessible sidewalk is in the works over the next few weeks.

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