Concrete floors coming to Harewood lacrosse court for extra $162K
NANAIMO — Lacrosse players will have their preferred flooring surface at the Harewood Centennial Park for their games and it will cost a significant amount of money to have it.
Originally designed to have an asphalt surface at the covered play space on Howard Ave., it will now be concrete similar to a skate park after lacrosse user groups asked for the change. Though improvements to the Centennial Park were in the planning stages for several years, a staff report showed the user groups asked for a concrete floor at the end of November 2017.
The move to a concrete surface instead of the cheaper and more common asphalt, to the cost of an extra $162,000, was made at Wednesday’s finance and audit committee. The committee is comprised entirely of Nanaimo City Council members and recommendations are almost always approved at the Council level.
At a previous committee meeting on Dec. 13, they’d approved a budget increase of up to $220,000 for the concrete flooring.