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Cairns Arena plans rink rebuild; council approves lease-extension to help finance work
Summary
Council approved a consent-agenda item to extend the Cairns Arena lease term to assist amortizing a loan for a roughly $900,000 rink-2 infrastructure replacement; managers said the rink will close for about three months beginning in early April.
The City Council approved a consent-agenda item March 17 that extends the term of the Cairns Arena lease to allow the facility to amortize a loan for a major rink renovation, and facility managers said the work will take the second rink offline for several months.
Chris Cooper, identified at the meeting as a co-manager at Cairns Arena, said the work will replace the floor and piping under Rink 2 after a heating-system failure. “Rink 2 will be shut down…about 3 months to do the…
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