Bratislava Ice Hockey Arena - first visualisation of 2011 IIHF World Championship Arena
Monday, March 17th, 2008
Multifunctional arena in Bratislava’s district Bratislava New Town, where will be held 2011 Ice Hockey World Championship, should stay in the place of Primary school Kalničiakova. Leaders of Slovak Ice Hockey Federation (SIHF) and Arena 2011 c.o. have a plan to build it till December 2010. They introduced first visualisations of new Arena and its trafic services.
In surroundings of Arena will be builed up car park with capacity 1300 cars. Arena will have only one ice-ring. Second training hall during 2011 IIHF World Championship will be Samsung Arena (nepela Arena) in near centre of Bratislava. Planned capacity of the hall is 12 000 spectators during ice hockey games, and about 3000 spectators more during other events.
Land in the corner of Trnavska and Bajkalska street opposite the Pasienky Sport Hall are large 26 thousand square metres - about 10 000 square metres larger than in the past place of a cyclodrome.
“Land in Kalinčiakova street is the best available possibility in consideration of traffic service, its location is great advantage. Bratislava Town worked together with us in the process of development of candidature, we were talking about all alternavies of the arena’s location, except this one.” said director of Marketing of SIHF and director of Arena 2011 Marin Ryba.
Development of multifunctional arena continues and the final presentation will be finished in the summer 2008. “Now is the high time to stand against the problem responsible and we must make everything to build the arena till 2011 to avoid the international fiasco. We want to build it up till December 2010. We are negotiating how to finance the project with the Ministry of School and Sport. In the short time government of Slovakia will discuss about it.” Martin Ryba said.
