2011 Streak 106/365: Walk - 6.35 miles, time - 2hrs 5min, Weather - early blue skies followed by cloud
This looks like it could be quite an exciting building - all bent steel and tin. It might look as if there is still some way to go before it is finished it is due to open in July. I guess the fitting-out will be speedy.
When finished it will be an extreme sports and youth facility (either a natural mix or a dangerous combination, depending on your viewpoint). But whichever way you look at it, it promises to be an interesting.
It will have a 60 x 15 metre climbing wall, indoor caving, and a high ropes course for the adventurous sportsman. There will also be a skate board course which might also be extreme but will probably be used more by youths. More specifically for youths there will be a music recording studio, a band rehearsal room and an internet cafe as well as a teen focused health centre with counselling rooms.
Sometimes I wish I was young, flexible, agile, strong and well balanced. But as none of those apply my approval can only be totally disinterested. I think it sounds like great fun and something that could be good for the town. It is located as it is by the running track and behind the Snow Centre and thus part of an interesting group of venues (if you forget about Leisure World), though their audiences probably don't overlap too much.
Nevertheless it will be good and It also promises to be visually quite striking.
But who knows how it will turn out. But I must admit to feeling happy to see a new building that is not either a block of apartments or a warehouse.
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