is the carpark opperator going to be private? or will venue management look after this....

i dare say the 680 carspace are reserved for the 500 corporates, venue management, event opperators + disabled (maybe)....

i dare say none for the general public.


Debt free dosnt mean it is on budget......

They have found a well known international company to manage the venue.

The Crow? Who needs a budget? The Government are on a non-stop spending spree anyways. The billion dollar Fiona Stanley Hospital is just beginning to get built...

Given it's in the CBD, there will be plenty of nearby parking spots for the public.

I can't wait until the arena is finished

I hope, considering how good our public transport linkages are into Perth Train Station, 80% of people use trains.

http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx? ... tID=113619

$110m Arena blowout
17th December 2008, 6:00 WST


Contractor BGC is expected to demand about $110 million in cost overruns on the Arena indoor stadium next week, taking the total cost of the project to about $425 million.

Sources say BGC will demand the extra money over unexpected costs partly because of engineering difficulties with the underground carpark, and it will also change the estimated completion date from late 2010 to May 2011.

Office of Strategic Projects executive director Richard Mann confirmed the contractor had told his office of major cost overruns “very cagily, without being precise” but had yet to confirm a price.

He said he could not confirm the figure of $110 million until the written claim was submitted to the Department of Housing and Works, which is expected to be next week. He confirmed the contractor had informed the Government recently of a time delay “well into 2011”, which would mean the Arena would not be available to host the Hopman Cup in 2011 as planned.

But he said the Government still believed it would be possible to finish the project by late 2010. There were negotiations for a different venue to stage the event in 2011 if it was not.

Spokesmen for both Burswood Resort and the Hopman Cup tournament said they had not had notification of the potential change in plans and were not expecting to host the tennis event at Burswood in 2011.

“We will turn contingency into reality,” Mr Mann said.

He said the Government would negotiate to find out how much of the blowout the contractor would pay and how much taxpayers would cover.

BGC declined to comment.

KIM MACDONALD

wholy crap!!!! you can have a crappy indoor arena or half an MCG????????

My Dad has been selling the steel for this project and price rises have been astronomical. You also have to remember this was begun in the boom and like everything stadium delays.

But yes $425 million is a hell of a lot for an Indoor Stadium. Nice to see the concrete pad has some scaffolding on it now. Took them a while

$425m is an awful lot of money for an indoor stadium - and indoor stadiums don't get much work in Australia

I think 100 million dollars is the underground carpark...

Why they needed to spend that much on car spaces baffles me...

This thing better end up looking bloody good.

Considering we haven't had a proper concert venue in about 10 years and that it is likely to repay itself over and over again in the lifetime of the building, expectations may be a little high.

World Cup games inside the Indoor Stadium?

a look at the exterior...

We have caught up to Eden Park now!

Great to see the building starting just as I am about to depart Perth.