SURREY FIRST BUILD SURREY, THE NEXT GENERATION

BACKGROUND:

Surrey is Canada’s fastest growing city, and learning lessons from the under-investment of the previous government, Surrey First launched the Build Surrey program, an aggressive effort to build physical capacity to attract businesses and provide a high quality of life for residents. The $800 million program was funded without needing to raise property taxes, and funded such community amenities as ice rinks, sports fields, community recreation centres and arts facilities.

Regionally, these investments included:

CLOVERDALE

• $39 million invested from Build Surrey
  • Cloverdale Recreation Centre completed
  • Cloverdale Youth Park under construction
  • Surrey Visitors Centre – completed
  • Surrey Museum – Phase One completed
  • Surrey Animal Resource Centre completed

FLEETWOOD

• $41 million invested from Build Surrey
  • New ice sheet completed
  • Fleetwood community addictions centre under construction
  • Surrey Bend Regional Park (partnership with Metro Vancouver) completed

NEWTON

• $116 million invested from Build Surrey
  • Surrey RCMP Head Office Expansion completed
  • Newton Athletic Park completed
    • $9 million in improvements ongoing
    • 4 artificial turf fields
    • 7 grass fields
    • 2 cricket fields
    • Soccer fields
    • 8 tennis courts
    • BMX track
  • Fire Hall 10 completed
  • Newton Cultural Centre completed
  • Tamanawis Athletic Park completed
  • Newton Recreation and Water Park upgrades under construction
  • Panorama Park & Newton Tennis Centre under construction
  • Eco-residential recycling transfer centre under construction

SOUTH SURREY

• $73 million invested from Build Surrey
  • Kensington Prairie Community Centre completed
  • South Surrey Recreation Centre & Arts Space completed
  • Surrey Fire Hall 14 completed
  • Semiahmoo Library Green Wall completed
  • Pioneer Pedestrian/Cycling Overpass completed
  • Grandview Aquatic Centre – under construction for 2015
  • Artificial turf field

GUILDFORD

• $57 million invested from Build Surrey
  • Guildford Aquatic Centre Addition under construction
  • Fraser Heights Recreation Centre – completed
  • Hjorth Road Park & Tynehead Overpass completed
  • Guildford Mall addition upgrade ($280 million private sector investment)
• Guildford West neighborhood selected in partnership with United Way or My Neighborhood, My Future initiative, five-year investment to improve social connections, youth literacy, and access to family services
  • Artificial turf field Hjorth Road Park

CITY CENTRE

• $200 million city investment from Build Surrey
• More than $3 billion in private sector investment
• New City Hall & Plaza completed
• City Centre Library & Chuck Bailey Recreation and Senior Centre completed
• Bridgeview Community Centre, Covered Youth Park & Surrey Nature Centre completed
• Park Place & City Centre 1 completed
• Park Avenue & University district under construction
• 3 Civic plaza & Quattro under construction
• Coast Capital & The Wave under construction
• Ultra Tower & Holland Park under construction
• Innovation Boulevard
  • Within one square mile of City Centre
  • Network of health institutions (healthcare technology a $308 billion industry annually)
  • Four universities and 108 businesses
  • Results:
    • Mayor’s Health Tech Working Group (30 regional experts & thought leaders)
    • Neurotech lab – Neuroscience & medical imaging labs
    • Digital Health Hub – Digital health focused incubator at SFU
    • Health Tech Connex – Health Technology accelerator
    • Hosted industry event with 300 executives from health tech sector
  • Partners
    • Simon Fraser University
    • LifeSciences BC
    • National Research Council
    • BC Technology Industry Association
    • Fraser Health Authority
    • Kwantlen Polytechnic University
    • Lark Group
    • PCI
    • Healthtech Connex
    • Surrey Memorial Hospital Foundation
    • University of British Columbia
    • BC Cancer Agency
    • British Columbia Institute of Technology
    • Mitacs
    • Conquer Mobile
    • Digital Health Hub

PLATFORM:

Surrey First will continue with the successful Build Surrey program with a follow-on initiative, the Build Surrey, The Next Generation Fund. Carryover projects will include:

• $70 million Performing Arts Centre and Contemporary Arts Space and Gallery in City Centre
• $60 million for a new Cloverdale ice arena as a public-private partnership in two phases.
• $67.5 million for the completion of the BioFuel facility.
• $3 million for the Surrey Museum Phase 2 completion.
• $4 million for two artificial turn fields at locations to be decided.
• $40 million for relocation of the North Surrey Recreation Centre as a public-private partnership.
• $16 million for the Fleetwood Multipurpose Space and Gymansium.
• $8 million for the fitness facility at the Newton Pool.
• $55 million for the pool at Grandview Heights.
• $12 million for the Newton Athletic Park.
• $66 million for the replacement of the City Worksyard.
• $11 million for the East Clayton Recreation Centre.
• $6 million for the Eco-Residential Recycling Centre.
• $418.5 million.

Surrey First will reserve an additional $30 million from its financial platform funding envelope to fund emerging priorities over the next four years for a total investment of $448.5 million.