{"id":55686,"date":"2016-02-17T11:15:11","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T18:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northlands.com\/?p=55686"},"modified":"2016-02-17T11:16:30","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T18:16:30","slug":"northlands-releases-vision-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northlands.com\/?p=55686","title":{"rendered":"Northlands Releases Vision 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Northlands\u2019 Vision 2020 plan creates new signature athletic and entertainment spaces for Edmontonians<\/h3>\n<p><strong>EDMONTON, AB \u2013<\/strong> Today, alongside Mayor Don Iveson, Northlands President &amp; CEO Tim Reid unveiled Northlands Vision 2020, a plan for the immediate future of the 160-acre Northlands campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNorthlands\u2019 realities have changed and we needed to find new ways to serve our community, as we have for over 137 years,\u201d continued Reid. \u201cWe listened closely to what our city needed and<br \/>\nwhat we could realistically provide \u2013 Vision 2020 is the result.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vision 2020 is an innovative, tangible plan that satisfies the athletic and entertainment needs of Edmontonians. It takes advantage of buildings already in place and relies on Northlands\u2019 proven capacity<br \/>\nas one of the city\u2019s premier events and athletics hosts. The transformation has three cornerstone projects:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Renovation of Rexall Place into the Northlands Ice Coliseum, an athletic complex with seven sheets of ice across two levels, with the ability to be converted to host other indoor sports such as volleyball,<br \/>\nlacrosse, curling and indoor soccer.<\/li>\n<li>The conversion of the current Northlands Park Racetrack &amp; Casino into an Urban Festival Site \u2013 a multi-use public park with the ability to host large-scale festivals and outdoor concerts of 30,000 to 140,000 people.<\/li>\n<li>Renovation of Hall D into a high-quality 5,000 seat venue for professional lacrosse, rodeo events, minor hockey tournament championships and mid-size concerts that need a venue of this size.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cI congratulate Northlands on their bold new vision to repurpose their existing facilities,\u201d said Mayor Iveson. \u201cMy Council colleagues and I are looking forward to hearing more details and listening to what<br \/>\nEdmontonians think of the Northlands proposal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new spaces will compliment Northland\u2019s large roster of traditional events and programming, such as K-Days, FarmFair International, its connection to agriculture and the many shows and conferences<br \/>\nthat currently make their home at the Edmonton Expo Centre.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNorthlands belongs to everyone. Our next steps are to reach out to the community to see if we got this plan right, and to ask them to actively help us refine this vision,\u201d said Reid. \u201cThis isn\u2019t about us telling the<br \/>\ncommunity what they get \u2013 this is about the community telling us what they <em>want<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northlands\u2019 Vision 2020 plan creates new signature athletic and entertainment spaces for Edmontonians<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northlands.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northlands.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northlands.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northlands.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northlands.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/northlands.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55688,"href":"https:\/\/northlands.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55686\/revisions\/55688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northlands.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northlands.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northlands.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}