Place Bell (Laval, Quebec)
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| Location | Laval, QC |
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| Coordinates | 45°33′21″N 73°43′18″W / 45.5558°N 73.7218°WCoordinates: 45°33′21″N 73°43′18″W / 45.5558°N 73.7218°W |
| Public transit | Montreal Metro Orange Line (Montmorency) |
| Owner | City of Laval |
| Operator | Evenko |
| Capacity | 10,000 (main arena) |
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| Opened | 2017 |
| Construction cost | $200 million |
| Architect | Lemay |
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| Laval Rocket (beginning in 2017) | |
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Place Bell is a multipurpose sports facility under construction in Laval, Quebec, Canada. It will include a 10,000 seat main arena and two smaller ice rinks.
The former mayor of Laval, Gilles Vaillancourt, announced the project on February 13, 2012. The facility will be managed by Evenko, the same company that operates the Bell Centre in Montreal, home of the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League. As in the case of the Bell Centre, the naming rights for the Laval arena have been acquired by Bell Canada. The cost of the project has roughly doubled since it was first announced. Originally announced by Vaillancourt in 2012 to cost $92.6 million, the estimate was revised less than a year later to $150 million. In March 2014, Laval's new mayor Marc Demers estimated that the cost of Place Bell would double to $200 million, because of costs not factored by the previous administration. The Government of Quebec is committed to contributing $46 million; Demers has asked that the province assume more of the costs, as it has for other arena projects.
Initial plans called for the arena to be built in the city's Quartier de l'Agora district, next to the Laval courthouse, but the unstable soil in that location led to a move. In October 2012, the city announced that the project will be located adjacent to the Montmorency station of the Montreal Metro Orange Line.
Construction started in late 2014 with a completion date in 2017.
On 11 July 2016, the Montreal Canadiens announced it would relocate its American Hockey League affiliate, then known as the St. John's IceCaps, to Place Bell in 2017. On 8 September 2016, the Canadiens announced the team would be named the Laval Rocket.
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