New ballpark, arena project a home run for Spruce Grove athletes
As more people choose to make Spruce Grove home, new sporting amenities for its nearly 40,000 residents are in the works.
Construction is underway on two significant infrastructure projects: the Spruce Grove Civic Centre and the Metro Ballpark.
The Metro Ballpark includes the construction of a new baseball facility that can accommodate more than 3,000 spectators, an outdoor amphitheatre, a microbrewery, a 68-unit condo complex and a storage facility.
Officially known as the Myshak Metro Ballpark, the facility is being constructed on the corner of Pioneer Road and Highway 16A and will be the home of the Edmonton Prospects baseball team.
The project is a collaboration with the city and private developer Gold Sports and Entertainment Group of Companies.
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As more people choose to make Spruce Grove home, new sporting amenities for its nearly 40,000 residents are in the works. The city is welcoming two major infrastructure projects: a Metro Ballpark and The Spruce Grove Civic Centre, which will house two hockey arenas, a satellite library, a theatre and an art gallery.
Estimated to cost about $50 million, the ballpark is welcomed news for the Parkland Minor Ball Association, which supports a budding cohort of young players.
“I think our enrolment has gone up 100 athletes,” said Shane Dawson, coach for the Parkland Twins team.
“I think we’re kind of around the 700 to 800 athlete mark, which is pretty good for an association kind of pulling from 80,000 people towns.”
Spruce Grove’s population is 38,985, according to the city’s 2023 municipal census. The average annual population growth rate for the past 10 years has been 3.41 per cent.
Managing ice time
The city’s new civic centre will be a large multi-use facility, that includes:
- Two arenas.
- A satellite library location.
- A black box theatre.
- A gallery and studio space.
The city approved the 125,000-square-foot facility, located north of Westwind Drive, in June 2022, and construction began that fall. The provincial government has provided $19 million for the project, which has a total estimated price tag of $73 million.
David Wolanski, the city’s general manager of community and protective services, said the project be the first major ice facility in the community in more than 20 years.
“We’re at over 98 per cent of our ice allocation being used up and all of our user groups and communities saying ‘We could take in more, we’re turning away people from an ice-perspective,’ ” Wolanski said.
That’s a sentiment that city councillor and ice skating coach Danielle Carter has heard from residents.
“It’s something that we have heard through community consultation. So bringing on two more sheets of ice really frees up space for all the user groups within the city and especially for the skating club,” Carter said.
“Which means we can bring in more tournaments and really amplify our sport tourism.”
Wolanski said that having the facility be multipurpose allows for balancing diverse community needs.
“It was a combination of the need for ice, but also the community saying we don’t want to just focus on recreation.”
The Spruce Grove Saints junior hockey team have reached an agreement in principle with the city to play in the civic centre when it opens.
Going to the big leagues
Conrad Procter has lived in Spruce Grove his whole life and has been able to pass on his love for baseball to his 16-year-old son, Mason Procter.
For residents like Procter, projects like the ballpark help envision an ambitious future for his son.
“There’s kids out of this association that have gone on to professional ranks of baseball, so that’s really cool.”
“My son personally looks up to some of those guys being able to do that. He has possible aspirations of moving on to college baseball.”
Both the Spruce Grove Civic Centre and Metro Ballpark are expected to open in 2025.
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