{"id":110677,"date":"2026-06-30T20:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T20:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/110677\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T20:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T20:17:09","slug":"vancouver-giants-to-move-to-surrey-as-city-announces-10000-seat-arena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/110677\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Giants to move to Surrey as city announces 10,000-seat arena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 2 minutes<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been 10 years since the Vancouver Giants actually played within the city limits of Vancouver, but a new arena slated for development will move them a little closer to the city. <\/p>\n<p>The City of Surrey announced Tuesday that it has reached an agreement in principle to develop a new arena and cultural event centre, where the Giants will be the anchor tenants. <\/p>\n<p>But, Langley fans still have time to enjoy the hockey team in their community; the Surrey arena is not expected to be complete until about 2030, according to a news release from Surrey. <\/p>\n<p>The Giants <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/the-vancouver-giants-have-left-the-building-what-now-for-the-pacific-coliseum-1.3564978\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">left Vancouver&#8217;s Pacific Coliseum<\/a> in 2016 for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/langley-events-centre-new-home-of-the-vancouver-giants-1.3564406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Langley Event Centre<\/a>. The team had called the Coliseum\u00a0home since its inception in 2001.  <\/p>\n<p>Surrey&#8217;s arena will boast 10,000 seats, almost double the 5,276 seats in Langley, but still not quite the 15,713 available in Vancouver. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A rendering of a new arena\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782850629_142_default.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.7777777777777777\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>A rendering of the arena slated for development in Surrey, B.C. (City of Surrey)<\/p>\n<p>It will be built across from Surrey Central SkyTrain and city hall \u2014 making it easier to get to for transit riders throughout the region. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled to be part of this amazing venue that will change the face of Surrey like never before,\u201d Ron Toigo, majority owner and president of the Vancouver Giants, said in the release. \u00a0  <\/p>\n<p>The development project as a whole will also include a hotel and conference space, as well as housing, the city said, with a goal of creating a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/surrey-s-mayor-has-a-vision-for-a-new-12-000-seat-venue-1.7119248\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">new sports and entertainment hub<\/a> in one of B.C.&#8217;s fastest-growing cities. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBringing this arena to Surrey means jobs, investment, conference capacity, and major sports,\u00a0arts\u00a0and entertainment like never before,&#8221; Mayor Brenda Locke said in the release. <\/p>\n<p>The estimated cost of the project is $360 million. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-110677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}