The Sun Peaks Centre is almost done being built, but it appears no one will be using for a while once it’s finished.

The project is worth close to $10 million and has been under construction for more than a year, long before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mayor Al Raine says it will be done this summer.

“It’s about 85 per cent completed, and we’re still working on some of the interior issues and then there’s still some landscaping to come over this summer.”

Raine says the pandemic has put a wrench in summer events that would’ve happened at the new facility.

“Unfortunately our aspirations a year ago would’ve been to be holding a major concert in the Centre and rolling it out in the summer, but that’s not going to happen… The uses that we had intended for this summer certainly won’t be happening.”

Raine says the facility having little-to-no usage when it’s finished will likely have some sort of impact to the village’s revenues and its budget.

He says the goal now is to have the ice ready for people this winter.