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Climbing centre breaks ground on Olympic-calibre facility

The Calgary Climbing Centre (CCC) held a groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday for a new Olympic-calibre facility in the citys southwest.

New 25K sq. ft. climbing gym will feature an outdoor artificial wall

The new facility will feature an outdoor climbing wall, seen in this rendering by architect Renante Solivar of MCM Partnerships. (Renante Solivar/MCM Partnerships)

The Calgary Climbing Centre (CCC) held a groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday for a new Olympic-calibre facility in the city's southwest.

The centre says the new 25,000-square-foot facility allows the centre to add 50 more employees to its current team of 150 working at its other gyms in the city.

The sport has been officially added to the list for the 2020 summer Olympics.

"The intention of it is to host a training ground for the Olympics in 2020 in Tokyo," said CCC president Walson Tai.

"So a lot of that has been taken into consideration with the design of the building.

The Calgary Climbing Centre held a groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday for a new Olympic-calibre facility in the southwest near Canada Olympic Park. (CBC)

The CCC has produced and helped train many provincial and national champions.

Tai says the groundbreaking has been a long time coming.

"We started the project in 2011. We're really excited to actually get some ground broken today," he said.

Tai says climbing is an increasingly popular sport in Calgary.

One in 10 Calgarians has been exposed to climbing,he said.

The new facility on West Valley Road, just west of COP, willfeature an outdoor artificial wall.

Thefacility is slated to open in February2018.

An indoor view of the new facility, seen in a rendering by architect Renante Solivar. (Renante Solivar/MCM Partnerships)

Corrections

  • An earlier version of this story said the Calgary Climbing Centre's new Olympic-calibre facility would have Canada's first outdoor climbing wall. In fact, it won't be the first.
    Feb 16, 2017 4:06 PM MT