Northern Bruce Peninsula will be reviewing a building condition assessment of the Lion’s Head Community Centre and Arena.
This comes after council awarded the contract for the work back in May, following a design and costing option update in January which resulted in council pressing pause on the redevelopment project.
The assessment from Facility Risk Solutions Ltd. outlines the various structural, architectural, mechanical, electrical, and accessibility features of the current building and some recommended actions to take.
Some of these recommendations include repairing the facility to ensure it can function as intended.
The assessment says the municipality could also replace the building, as the cost of repair is greater than constructing something new, and a repair of the building would not be as effective at addressing any deficiencies.
Council could also choose to make various installations or conduct further studies, which the assessment says is required to fully understand what the arena needs.
The assessment found while there are parts of the facility that are still in good condition, it pointed out the poor state of the exterior of the building which is in need of repair.
Should be municipality choose to move ahead with replacing the facility, the assessment determined it would cost about $23.5 million, which includes a contingency as well as demolition costs.
The multi-million dollar project has been in the works for a while, which sought to update the arena with new dressing rooms, a multi-purpose room, and creating a new Bruce County Library Branch.
Council pressed the breaks on the revamp earlier this year after a recommendation was brought to the table to approve spending $17 million.
Council will be reviewing this report during its meeting on Aug. 12 at 1 p.m.
