From the Town of Bracebridge:
Yesterday, the Town of Bracebridge announced the next round of community sponsors who are generously contributing to bringing the Muskoka Lumber Community Centre to life.
Through their generous contributions, the following organizations will become named sponsors in the facility.
- Kubota North, contributing $105,000 over 15 years for naming rights to three arena team rooms in the Muskoka Lumber Arena;
- JSW Manufacturing Inc, contributing $15,000 over 10 years for naming rights to the score clock in the Proline Rentals Fieldhouse; and
- Alarm Pro Muskoka, contributing $15,000 over 15 years for naming rights to the teen area in the Coulson Family Bracebridge Library.
Thank you to the following organizations for their generous donations:
- Crozier Foundation and Recreation Capital Fund Foundation for historic fundraising totaling $150,000; and
- The Kenney Foundation for their $5,000 donation.
During the summer months, work on the facility progressed with a focus on roofing, exterior wall insulation, concrete flooring, the external pond and retaining wall, exterior brick and more. The facility is scheduled to open in August 2024.
Help support the Muskoka Lumber Community Centre by sponsoring a seat in the arena or bay in the library. For $500 for an arena seat, or $250 for a library bay, sponsors will have a name placard in place for 25 years and receive a charitable tax receipt. Fifteen per cent of each seat and bay sale will go towards the South Muskoka Hospital Foundation’s annual capital fundraising campaign for much needed medical equipment.
For more information on the Muskoka Lumber Community Centre, donor opportunities and ways to be involved, visit engagebracebridge.ca.
Mac Redden says
The new arena is a financial disaster.
Aided and abetted by the District, of course.
Drunken sailors are thriftier.
“the project was costing $40 million!! more than initially anticipated.”
$58 million vs $18 million.
For some ugly boxes.
$276K donations hardly makes a dent in $40 million!!
For $10 million LESS cost for local taxpayers King township is getting over DOUBLE the facility.
When expected federal and provincial funding didn’t come through did Bracebridge cancel or scale back the project and the cost?
Nope. Just borrow FAR more.
Using the District’s access to huge loans at high interest rates.
“The loans required will make Bracebridge one of Ontario’s top indebted communities.”
Cost is 3X+ expected for Bracebridge taxpayers. With a year to go.
Could be 4X expected cost by the time it’s done.
A disaster.
For $10 million LESS than Bracebridge taxpayers are now burdened with, King township is completing a state-of-the-art, carbon neutral, fully accessible recreation complex with TWO!! NHL-sized ice surfaces, a six-lane 25-metre lap pool, a leisure pool, a multi-purpose athletic fieldhouse, and a multi-purpose community room.
Total $86 million minus $38.7 funded from the feds and the province.
king ca/townshipwiderecreationcentre
Some areas know how to get funding and value for money.
Bracebridge is not one of them.
A financial disaster for decades to come.
For facts and numbers search “Bracebridge moving forward with community centre build despite cost spike”
Not on target at all.
https://southmuskoka.doppleronline.ca/new-arena-on-target-for-august-2024-opening/
You think your taxes are high now? Just wait…