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Nustadia Recreation
710 Mountain Brow Blvd.
Hamilton, Ontario
L8T 5A9
Tel: (905) 630-0958

Mohawk 4-Ice Centre, Hamilton

Developer & Operator Nustadia Recreation	Project Director / Principal Ben Sproule (905) 630-0958

General Manager Ed Pavao (905) 741-1515	Facility Website www.mohawk4icecentre.ca

After two unsuccessful attempts, the City of Hamilton issued a third call for Expressions of Interest for Private Public Partners to develop a new four-pad Arena complex on land in the fully developed Mohawk Sports Park, Hamilton's largest active sports park . The 95 acre site includes 18 playing fields (baseball, soccer, football), most of which are fully lit for evening play. The site for the four-pad arena is on the mountain brow, with an impressive view of the north shore of Lake Ontario, Red Hill Creek Valley, and the Skyway Bridge.

"The new Hamilton Four-Pad Arena Facility includes 4 NHL sized arenas with 150 seats each, and a multi-use, restaurant/ bar/ entertainment/ meeting area of over 8,000s.f."

Nustadia Developments and Ellis-Don Ltd. formed a new company called 'the Hamilton Arena Partners (HAP)', and submitted a detailed proposal to partner with the City in the development of a new anchor facility for Mohawk Sports Park. The innovative proposal put forward a facility that was a year round business venture, providing dedicated services to the outdoor playing fields as well as a financing model based on long term service agreements with the user groups.

Nustadia Development's plan presented complete business planning, programming, PPP agreements, speci.cations and design drawings, a Guaranteed Maximum Cost (including a design-build contract for the building), complete development management services, a design review and modification process, and complete fit-up. Nustadia Developments, through HAP, would provide the operations and marketing of the new facility for a ten-year term.

The City of Hamilton and HAP created a partnership agreement for the Design, Construction, Financing, and Operating of the new Four-pad Complex in February of 2004.

The design-build team, lead by Ellis-Don Ltd. and PBK Architects was given the daunting task of completing the entire construction (with the exception of site services and some grading that was pre-awarded) between March and mid-December of 2004. The new Hamilton Four-Pad Arena Facility includes 4 NHL sized arenas with 150 seats each, and a multi-use, restaurant/ bar/ entertainment/ meeting area of over 8,000s.f.

The Food and Beverage services include a rooftop patio area overlooking the playing .elds, and many innovative programs. Nustadia pre-sold the naming rights for the facility commercial lease space for other vendors including the food and beverage operations, a sports retail business and over $100,000 of advertising and sponsorships annually. The total development cost, was approximately $16.3M (excluding the cost of land).

The Mohawk Sports Park 4-Ice Centre was successfully completed on budget and on schedule (with allowance for a seven-week labour dispute by the bricklayers), and opened on January 15, 2005. The partnership agreements with the users and the funding strategy has created a new model for multi-pad spectator arena development in Canada.