The City of Lakewood is seeking a contractor-led design-build team to provide professional design and construction services with specific expertise in ice rink/arena design and construction.

The Winterhurst Ice Arena (14740 Lakewood Heights Blvd) opened in 1975 as a community-owned and operated facility and consists of two sheets of ice (each 200’ x 85’) with a supporting lobby, skate rental room, pro shop, second floor lounge, office space, locker rooms, and a food/concession area.

The spectator stands and eight of the existing locker rooms are original to the 1974 – 1975 building construction.  In 2008, two larger high school locker rooms were added by relocating the public entrance and placing a small addition on the SW corner of the building.  The facility does not currently have any appropriately sized indoor off-ice training space.  Teams, camps, and clinics routinely use the parking lot due to the lack of available indoor training space.

This project is intended to focus on the locker rooms and spectator areas that serve both rinks – with the desire to seek the addition of an indoor off-ice training space.

GOALS  (as listed by priority):

• Reconfigure and renovate existing (original 1974-75) locker room space(s) to provide contemporary facilities that can be used interchangeably by both male/female teams. Within budget limitations, increase number of youth/high school locker rooms available via more efficient use of existing space or by limited expansion of building footprint.
• Develop most feasible option for the addition of an indoor off-ice training space for athletes and teams within the existing building footprint (including consideration of second floor above locker room spaces) or by limited expansion of building footprint.
• Replace existing (also original 1974-75) spectator stands in both rinks with contemporary and ADA-accessible designs while working to improve pathways (from lobby to rear locker room spaces) and enhance organizational/team storage space under spectator stands.

APPROACH:

Working in partnership with City Departments and our Winterhurst Operations team, the selected contractor will execute the project in two distinct phases:

• The project will begin with an initial design phase to evaluate all available options to achieve the above stated goals within the projected project budget. Process should provide time at start to engage with local organizations/teams to gather design input and functional considerations.
• Once the project design and scope are finalized, the project will shift to the build phase. Construction is intended to begin during the Spring/Summer of 2025.  It is critical that the facility maintain continuity of rink operations during the build phase as much as possible.

DB SELECTION SCHEDULE (Subject to Change)

October 11	RFQ issued
October 16 – 18	Pre-Proposal Site Visit Window
October 22 (5pm)	Questions submitted by email
October 25 (3pm)	Questions/Responses posted
November 1 (4pm)	Proposal submittal deadline
November  4 – 8	Interviews (TBC) and DB Selection