{"id":775727,"date":"2026-07-02T15:35:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T15:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/775727\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T15:35:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T15:35:30","slug":"surrey-b-c-to-build-10000-seat-arena-to-host-whls-vancouver-giants-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/775727\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrey, B.C., to build 10,000-seat arena to host WHL\u2019s Vancouver Giants | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783006530_223_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke speaks during an announcement, in Delta, B.C., on Wednesday, July 2, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Darryl Dyck<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJun 30, 2026 | 10:44 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>SURREY \u2014 The Metro Vancouver city of Surrey has announced it is going ahead with the development of a 10,000-seat arena that will become the new home of the Western Hockey League\u2019s Vancouver Giants when it\u2019s complete.<\/p>\n<p>The city and the Surrey City Development Corp. say they have agreed in principle to develop the arena on a two-hectare parcel of land near city hall, to be completed by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>The cost of the arena is estimated at $360 million, with funding already allocated in Surrey\u2019s 2026 budget.<\/p>\n<p>The project will also include a luxury hotel, conference space and housing, and the arena can also play host to concerts and cultural events. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke speaks during an announcement, in Delta, B.C., on Wednesday, July 2, 2025. THE CANADIAN&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82,87674],"class_list":["post-775727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775727","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=775727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}