{"id":603757,"date":"2026-04-14T16:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T16:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/603757\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T16:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T16:35:08","slug":"edmontons-kinsmen-fieldhouse-closed-for-renovations-until-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/603757\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton\u2019s Kinsmen Fieldhouse closed for renovations until 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bad news \u2013 at least for now \u2013 for tennis, badminton and pickleball players and runners who use Edmonton\u2019s Kinsmen Sports Centre in the river valley.<\/p>\n<p>The Kinsmen Fieldhouse is closed for renovations until the summer or fall of next year.<\/p>\n<p>Parts of the sports centre are more than 50 years old.<\/p>\n<p>When it reopens next year, the city promises some improvements, like a new artificial turf on centre courts, the five-lane synthetic competitive track, plus a new batting cage,<\/p>\n<p>Also promised are upgrades to the training area, flooring, stairs and other improvements.<\/p>\n<p>Initial plans refer a larger rehab on the entire Kinsmen Sports Centre. The plans were downsized because of funding.<\/p>\n<p>That means, for now, the pool remains open with no immediate upgrades.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1024\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Kinsmen-fieldhouse-1024x550.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" ratio=\"16x9\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tA sign showing the Kinsmen Fieldhouse is closed. (CityNews) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bad news \u2013 at least for now \u2013 for tennis, badminton and pickleball players and runners who use&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":{"0":"post-603757","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-edmonton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}