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Sharing the final design for Lewis Farms Facility and Park
November 8, 2018

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Final design for Lewis Farms Facility and Park is complete and ready to share. Edmontonians are invited to view the final design plans and learn about next steps for this project.

Date: Tuesday, November 13
Time: 4 - 8 p.m.
Location: Conference Centre, West Edmonton Christian Assembly, 6315 199 Street

Feedback gathered from the general public and specific user groups shaped the final design for Lewis Farms Facility and Park. The City is pleased to share these plans with all those involved and interested.

Based on engagement and stakeholder feedback, Lewis Farms was identified in the 2005-2015 Recreation Facility Master Plan and the Medium Term Recreation Facility and Sports Field Plan as one of the new recreation centres to be developed.

Funding for construction of this facility will be determined as part of the 2019-2022 Capital Budget deliberations. The project is currently categorized as unfunded in the budget.
For more information:
edmonton.ca/LewisFarmsFacilityandPark

Media contact:
Adriana Amelio
Communications Advisor
780-496-2821
 
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What’s Coming:
Lewis Farms Recreation Facility
Perhaps the most anticipated upcoming project, the Lewis Farms Facility is a proposed $25 million recreation centre. It’s in the design phase, and the City of Edmonton aims to break ground in 2020, pending funding. The Lewis Farms recreation centre will only a few minutes south of West Secord. We’re talking walking distance!

Features:
  • 30 x 25m dive tank with 1 and 3m springboards and 5, 7.5 and 10m dive platforms
  • Swimming pool with water features, kiddie pool, 53m ten-lane pool, whirlpool and steam room
  • Fitness centre with cardio and weight training space
  • Two fitness studios
  • Track
  • Three gyms
  • Bouldering wall
  • Twin NHL-size rinks, plus an outdoor ice rink
View out the Lewis Farms Community Recreation Centre preliminary artistic renderings.

Lewis Farms Library
The same site will be home to an 18 thousand sq ft Edmonton Public Library branch. Check out Ward 1 city councillor Andrew Knack’s website for details.

West High School Academic Centre
Sharing a site with the Lewis Farms Community Recreation Centre will be a Catholic High School Completion Centre for 350 students in their 4th and 5th high school years. Funded by the Catholic school board, the academic centre will be 48,000 sq feet, with an estimated cost of $19.8 million. It will also have a daycare.

Lewis Farms District Park
A plan to embrace the outdoors! Here are a few of the planned amenities:

  • Splash Park
  • Walkways and trails
  • Three baseball diamonds
  • Open field space
  • Tennis and basketball courts
  • Outdoor skateboard park
  • Outdoor fitness and picnic areas
Watch more here. You can also listen to the public announcement on the high school completion centre.
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https://secord-heights.com/lewis-farms-recreation-centre-district-park-library-high-school/
 
I would say more about this design, but I think that it is enough to say BRILLIANT!... just BRILLIANT!. Chalk up another world class architectural design for Edmonton!
 
Report name: Lewis Farms Community Recreation Centre and Library Project

Meeting Type: Urban Planning Committee 6773

Expected Meeting Date: Oct. 29, 2019

Motion: At the November 29 - December 14, 2018, City Council Budget meeting the following motion was passed: That Capital Profile # 15-21-5785, be increased by $292,871,000 to fund the Lewis Farms Community Recreation Centre and Library project delivery, with funds from debt financing, to be held in debt room (abeyance) until a report returns to Council through Committee back in November 2019. This report is to include a value engineering exercise with our existing construction manager, options to use offsite levies, pursue opportunities for regional cost sharing on recreation infrastructure through the Intermunicipal Collaboration Framework process, and exploration of new cost allocation models available in new Municipal Government Act and City Charter, and any other relevant information.

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C.1 Lewis Farms Rec Centre (Development Permit / Formal)
Carol Belanger - City of Edmonton

B. Nolan and A. Zepp left the meeting due to conflicts with the project.

MOTION: T. Antoniuk
Motion of Support with conditions

The Committee recommends the Applicant continue to evolve the design in the following
areas:
● Improving multi-use pathway connections into and through the site, providing active
connections to main building entrances.
● Reconsidering the location of the outdoor space for the daycare - due to limited solar
access throughout the winter.
● Refining winter design strategies, related to activation, lighting, seating, colour,
landscaping, etc.
● Enhancing the design of parking areas with a focus on greater access and safety (eg.
separate pedestrian connections supported by good wayfinding) and sustainability
(eg. increased tree canopy, landscaping, and Low Impact Development (LID)
features.
● Reconsidering the water feature in urban plaza with respect to broader water
conservation / sustainable project goals.
● Addressing the potential that the urban plaza will have limited functionality in winter
- due to solar access - and enhancing the public function / activity of the parkland
plaza space.
● Investigating further the architectural strategies identified (eg. art, landscaping,
lighting) to soften concrete walls at entrances and abutting garden areas.

SECONDED: C. Holmes
CARRIED
FOR THE MOTION: W. Sims, C. Holmes, T. Antoniuk, S. Kaznacheeva, D. Brown, A.
Benoit, D. Deshpande

 
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