A million-dollar upgrade of the car park will start, delivering 95 additional car parks, upgraded lighting and improved traffic management including a drop off zone at the stadium entrance and dedicated pedestrian walkways.
Bronwyn Klei said the work was well over due and the majority of asphalt works would occur over January and February so not to disrupt the City and Night Competition.
“During this time, there will still parking available and access to the stadium will be provided at all times.
From 26th November, the small car park to the south of the site will be sectioned off, as Fulton Hogan’s (the civil contractors undertaking the work) has established a site office and will be storing its machinery in this section.
Approximately 100 shrubs and trees and the tree boxes will be removed progressively over the next few weeks as their current position within the car park presents safety issues. Once the trees and kerbing have been removed, this area in the car park will be flagged with safety bunting, until asphalt works start in January.
To address the loss of this vegetation, more than 100 indigenous shrubs and trees will be planted in and around the stadium.
This car park project follows works already completed in the stadium including freshly painted interiors and air conditioning upgrades, the installation of new LED lighting within and outside the stadium, construction of a retaining wall along the eastern boundary, and the remediation, hyrdoseeding and irrigation of swales on the western side of the external courts.
Tonight, and over the next month, CND Competition participants will be asked to keep off of the swales which will be flagged with bunting and signage. Grass on these areas will take up to three months to establish.
Bronwyn Klei said a tender will be awarded in the coming weeks for the building works to redevelop the stadium’s change rooms and wet areas.
“Work will focus on upgrading all of the wet areas and creating a total of eight change rooms and two umpire change rooms including a dedicated Thunderbird change room facility and change rooms near the external courts,” she said.
Currently the stadium only has five change rooms and a small external toilet facility.
Bronwyn Klei said Priceline Stadium is the second most visited sporting facility in South Australia, and it is now over twenty years old and an overall upgrade is much needed.
“While I am committed to continuing to lobby government for more funding to completely upgrade Priceline Stadium, the existing grant funding from the Government of South Australia, is allowing us to address some urgent priorities,” she said.
