Arena 2011 will be built on Kalinciakova street
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
IIHF World Championship will be held in 2011 in Slovakia, announced the president od the Slovak Ice Hockey Federation Juraj Široký. The new Bratislava arena will be build in the place of Primary School on Kalinciakova street near intersection of streets Bajkalska and Trnavska.
” I am glad, that we settled on the place where the new ice hockey arena will be build. Few complications was caused by the movement of the school, but we solved it as well.” said Široký.
“We have also plan B, if something happen, but there is no way to change the term. It is not possible to change the term, and the 2011 IIHF WC will take place in Slovakian towns of Bratislava and Kosice. International Ice Hockey Federation is now just monitoring, what are we doing in Slovakia about the new arena. We got a condition and we promise, that we fulfil it. We will inform about the development and we will introduce the plans of arena at the next congress of IIHF”, he told.
At the meeting at the Ministry of School the minister Ján Mikolaj, the mayor of Bratislava Andrej Ďurkovský, the magistrate of Bratislava’s district New Town Richard Frimmel, and the delegation of Slovak Ice Hockey Federation, all parts conclude on the competence of each of them at the development of the new multifunctional ice hockey arena.
Planned capacity of the arena is 12 000 spectators. The costs on the development of Arena 2011 should reach about 3 billions of Slovak crowns (about 100 000 000 €). “I didn’t know the exact costs, but from the experiences from abroad I know, that such arena should cost three to three and half billion crowns.” said Široký. 240 million Slovak crowns is the price of a ground under the Arena 2011, but magistrate of Bratislava will rent it only for 1000 Sk per year.
