Those who have peered in the wide new windows of Kin 1 will agree it already looks like a marvel of engineering.
Gone is the decrepit barn of days gone by. In its place is a bright, sweeping, wood-based, Olympic-sized modern basilica of hockey.
But the doors remain locked and won't be open in time for Hockey Day in Canada next month.
Unless the construction schedule experiences an unexpected surge, the doors will remain shut until sometime in mid-February, said City of Prince George manager of facilities Andy Beesley.
"If nothing else we will try to maximize people's views into the building, and yes, it is almost ready, and yes it is a beautiful building we can all be excited about, but we are on track to have it ready for public entrance in February, not January," he said.
The building was initially slated to be open in time for the launch of this year's hockey season but poor weather conditions early in the construction process affected the scheduling of key building equipment and this set the grand re-opening back by a few months.
"We are on the finishing touches," said Beesley.
It wasn't intentional but the completion of the construction process will coincide with the one-year-mark from the lighting of the Canada Winter Games flame in 2015.
