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Hillcrest Centre
Athletic center in Vancouver, Canada / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Hillcrest Centre is a community centre with ice hockey, curling rinks, and an aquatics facility, located at Hillcrest Park in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Construction started in March 2007; it hosted the 2009 World Junior Curling Championships prior to the Olympics. During the 2010 Olympics, it was named the Vancouver Olympic/Paralympic Centre and had a capacity of 6,000 people to host curling at the 2010 Winter Olympics; for the 2010 Paralympics, it hosted the Wheelchair Curling event.[1][2]
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Full name | Hillcrest Centre |
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Former names | Vancouver Olympic/Paralympic Centre |
Location | 4575 Clancy Loranger Way, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
Capacity | 6,000[1] |
Construction | |
Broke ground | 2007 |
Opened | 2009 (curling venue) |
Expanded | 2011 (post-Games legacy facility) |
Construction cost | $39.05 million for the curling venue; an additional $48.8 million for post-Games conversion and Percy Norman Aquatic Centre[1] |
Architect | Hughes Condon Marler Architects[1] |
Tenants | |
Vancouver Curling Club (2011–present) |
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