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Lakewood outlines roughly $8M plan to renovate Winterhurst Ice Arena; programming growing
Summary
City staff presented a phased, multiyear capital plan for Winterhurst Ice Arena that includes locker-room additions, major mechanical work, replacement scoreboards paid by NOPEC, and a new sports‑medicine/warm‑up space.
City staff gave Lakewood City Council and the finance committee a detailed update July 21 on planned capital investments at Winterhurst Ice Arena, describing a multiyear, phased program of mechanical upgrades, locker-room and spectator improvements, programming expansion and site upgrades estimated to total roughly $8 million over coming years.
Assistant Director (planning/parks) Russ Boss presented a timeline and budget that begins with earlier work completed in 2023 (reopening work and an ice-plant/mechanical replacement) and moves into a 2025–2026 slate of construction: a locker-room addition to provide more and modern changing rooms, new ADA-accessible spectator stands, an indoor off-ice training/turf area, upgraded scoreboards (paid by NOPEC), and repairs to a concrete frost-heaving problem in a service corridor that damaged rink boards. The city also described a planned HVAC replacement and potential metal-roof work that would move forward after the next budget cycle and additional engineering work.
Key elements and immediate costs reported at the meeting:
- Locker room / rink renovation and spectator stands: the…
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