Tasmania's championship-winning basketball team says it's open to a re-location of its planned new high-performance facility, as a three-way tug of war over construction intensifies, with the team's CEO saying the current facility is too cold — and the team has to share with amateur sports.
A time-consuming back-and-forth between the state government and Glenorchy council is delaying the construction of the JackJumpers' new high-performance facility.
The red-tape delay has prompted the team to consider a permanent relocation to Kingborough, where it currently trains. The council amendments to the development application are believed to have added costs to the build that the government has baulked at. Mr Kestelman has hinted recently that he was open to a location shift of the facility if the government and council could not come to a resolution."We note that the team currently trains in Kingston and many of the players and staff already live in the area.
In a statement, a government spokesperson said they would "continue to have discussions with the basketball community". "Our conversation starts and stops with the program we've developed internally, but you can only rely on that for so long before players say, well what does that look like when we get there?"
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