At the Alkmaarse Athletics Association Hylas, they did not sit down when it turned out that there would be no indoor track in the new Sportpaleis to be built. The club itself has made a plan for a brand new 200 -meter indoor track and offered that to the sports alderman.
Such a new indoor track would not be a superfluous luxury, says sports consultant Rudmer HeeremaMediapartner Streekstad Centraal. “In the Netherlands you have one good indoor athletics track of 200 meters around. It is in Apeldoorn.”
“But it is only limited available and anyway the travel distance is great. For the rest you have something of twelve other indoor halls with straight jobs, but not with a 200 -meter round track around it. In Alkmaar there is just the possibility to build such a job,” says Heerema.
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Hylas found a good partner in the athletics union. That organization wants to double the number of athletics halls towards 2032. “The weather in the Netherlands is too bad in the winter,” club adviser Patrick van Balkom describes the necessity.
“We just have to be able to enter in the winter, but the indoor courts that we have are overcrowded.”
Build at the current location probably not possible
The Athletics Association would prefer to see that a hall is being built with six jobs around, right next to the Buitenbaan. But that is probably not possible at the current location, on Havinghastraat.
“There is a large gas pipeline along the site, we also have a handbow shooting association Achilles and we have the Viaanian mill,” said Heerema. “It has a mill biotope of 400 meters. That’s why you can build within those 400 meters less high.”
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He and his partners have thought about alternatives. That’s how he mentions the event site on the Olympiaweg. That’s the place where the KNVB Maybe to establish her new training complex. “Then you have a large area for indoor and outdoor together, and you are also very beautiful in the sports boulevard of Alkmaar.”
A move would also solve a lot of problems for Hylas, explains Exel board member Sergei. “Our job is worn out, ugly, dirty and in a number of places. And we hardly have any shelter here because the trees around the Viaanian mill have to stay low. It is always blowing here. And the club building is forty years old.”
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The most important question is whether Alkmaar wants to put money in another new sports accommodation. Tens of millions will be invested in in the coming years including the new Sportpaleis. According to the calculations, it must cost more than 38 million euros.
According to Heerema, the construction costs for an indoor athletics track come to more than 12 million euros. “That 12 million is excluding all subsidies that you can use from the national government and the province. So a few millions will go off.”
Plans presented in autumn
The Alkmaar sports alderman Christiaan Peetoom is now considering the plan. This fall, the Alkmaar city council will be presented with the plans including a response from the alderman.