Hillcrest Centre
The Hillcrest Centre is a community centre with ice hockey, curling rinks, and an aquatics facility, located at Hillcrest Park in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Construction started in March 2007; it hosted the 2009 World Junior Curling Championships prior to the Olympics. During the 2010 Olympics, it was named the Vancouver Olympic/Paralympic Centre and had a capacity of 6,000 people to host curling at the 2010 Winter Olympics; for the 2010 Paralympics, it hosted the Wheelchair Curling event.
| Full name | Hillcrest Centre |
|---|---|
| Former names | Vancouver Olympic/Paralympic Centre |
| Location | 4575 Clancy Loranger Way, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Capacity | 6,000 |
| Construction | |
| Broke ground | 2007 |
| Opened | 2009 (curling venue) |
| Expanded | 2011 (post-Games legacy facility) |
| Construction cost | $39.05 million for the curling venue; an additional $48.8 million for post-Games conversion and Percy Norman Aquatic Centre |
| Architect | Hughes Condon Marler Architects |
| Tenants | |
| Vancouver Curling Club (2011–present) | |
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