Centre de loisirs du Petit Port sport skating
Ice rink
Patinoire du Petit Port (English: Petit Port Ice Rink) is an Olympic-size facility with a single lateral stand seating 1034, and six club locker rooms. It is home to the Corsaires de Nantes ice hockey team, and hosted the 2017 French Ice Skating Championships.Transformative enhancements to the ice rink section of the building have struggled to get past the decision phase, leaving the visitor experience mostly unchanged throughout the years. Initial plans for the 2007–08 rebuild included an additional, 1000 m2 sound-insulated ice surface for dance parties, and the play park projected for 2013 featured a 200 m2 children's discovery zone made of synthetic ice, but neither materialized.
Instead, modest improvements have been made to the existing structure. In 2013, the old billiards hall was transformed into the 160 m2 Espace Boréal, which can be used as a video room, conditioning room or hospitality space. Some office space shuffling, combined with the scaling down of a bar, allowed for the creation of three new locker rooms in 2017.Due to its outdated design, the venue has long lacked proper executive suites, and remains dependent on repurposed space for its corporate experience. In 2021, the Corsaires ice hockey team offered to share costs on a new VIP stand with the city, although due to space constraints capacity will only increase to about 1200.
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