Downtown Windsor Family Aquatic Centre Construction: Week 7

By Owen Wolter

Monday April 23rd, 2012

Posted at 2:15pm

This week at the site of the future Downtown Windsor Family Aquatic Complex on the Western Super Anchor lands, construction crews continued excavating for the portion of the building that will house the atrium, change rooms, offices and basement mechanical areas. Crews began pouring portions of concrete to form the building’s foundation.

windsoriteDOTca is keeping an eye on Aquatic Centre Construction with weekly updates that will eventually form a time lapse. Construction of the aquatic facility is planned to progress in time for the International Children’s Games in August 2013.

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Campertim8849

Too bad Windsor Taxpayers don’t get a chance to vote on proposed Money Squandering. We’ll be paying for this Big Mistake for the next how many years???? Oh that’s OK, we’ll just give it to The University Of Windsor or St. Clair College for a dollar after it’s built, thanks Eddie.
- Jphillip65
  
  This aquatic centre will be paid off in two years, and it will be a success. People like you are what is wrong in this city. Go Eddie!
Mark

I doubt it will be a “success”. It won’t attract people from outside of Windsor/Essex. The only reason it is being built, is because Eddie promised it to the Children’s Games for 2013. While I don’t really care either way that it’s being built, I think the location is wrong.
Ken

The family water park attraction wasn’t meant to attract people from outside the city, it was meant to provide an amenity to the people of the city. The 50m Olympic standard pool is the feature that is more likely meant to attract people from outside the region with regional, provincial and national swim meets.

This is a good project, but I do question the timing, the cost and the location. The arena has already been built in the east end of the city and the super anchor lands have sat vacant since 1986, so I think it was time that something was finally built there instead of having blocks of bargain priced parking occupying a core part of downtown.

Whether or not it will be a success no one knows at this point, it’s all just speculation and Windsorites tend to have a lot of self hate for their own city.
fergusoj

I agree that that land has been wasted, although parking isn’t traditionally something we have a surplus of around the city, anyway. I just think an Aquatic Centre is a weird and futile way to utilize all those resources.