Updated July 26, 2010

On May 15, 2010 the new Chuck Bailey Recreation Centre welcomed a crowd at a grand opening celebration.  At the celebration, City Staff were presenting plans for a partially covered youth park to be built just south of the Recreation Centre between the gymnasium and the playground near the BC Lions Practice Facility. 

The new youth park will be a $1.5 million facility with a 580 square metre roofed skate bowl that will be dry and open for use in all weather conditions and seasons of the year.  There will also be a an open air street hockey box for casual games and a large outdoor plaza-style skate park component that works with the existing landscape and trees and will have plenty of rails, stair sets, boxes, slappy walls, quarter pipes, and gaps to keep a variety of experienced users happy.  There will also be some unique elements like a magic carpet ride and some skateable boulders that have never been built anywhere in BC. 

The Chuck Bailey Youth Park will be the first time a purpose-built roof shelter will be built over a skate bowl anywhere in Canada and the whole park will be visible from the Skytrain as one rides between Gateway and Surrey Central stations. 

Construction will begin in early September this year and the park will be open for use in time for Spring Break (mid March) 2011. 

For an idea of what this youth park will look like, click here (jpeg) and here (jpeg).

Last Updated--Jul 26, 2010