Lundy, who is leaving his role after 13 years, is adamant he has proved the doubters wrong when the centre was first proposed.
"All sports have grown and now have a permanent year-round base.
Previously, sports would have just a winter or a summer league.
But now things like netball can have year-round leagues while still concentrating their sport in their main season," Lundy said.
With 650,000 people through the door last year - the highest ever - and 25 sports played at the centre, Lundy said people who called the centre a white elephant when it started had been well and truly proved wrong.
"It is a real asset to the city and continues to improve all the time.
"Someone who has never been here before will come in and see some ways to improve it."
When Lundy first started the centre had a staff of about four, with some casuals.
That has grown to the equivalent of 12.5 staff, as more sports have flocked to the centre to make the most of the 21 courts.
"We've seen the growth of sports like futsal, which is really big here, and table tennis was really strong when it moved here from Kaikorai.
But any day of the week, we'll have thousands of people through the door.
"When it first opened, I suppose it was seen as a bit of a place for just netball and tennis but that has changed over the years, with a lot more sports coming on board."
From rippa rugby to marching, the centre makes full use of its 17,000sqm of space.
Concerts such as the B-52s and The Proclaimers last year had been a success, he said, and more were planned.
"We found it worked very well and was good for Dunedin.
Now we can have concerts up to 2000-3000 people in the Regent and Town Hall and then up to 5000 here, while the bigger events will go to the new stadium, when it is built."
Lundy said the new Forsyth Barr Stadium was not a rival to the Edgar Centre and the centre was likely to come under the umbrella of the Dunedin Venues Management Ltd in the next couple of years.
He felt the size of the Lion Foundation Arena was just right for a city the size of Dunedin, holding about 3000 for a sports event and 4500 for a concert.
Netball tests against Australia had not come to Dunedin as the Lion Foundation Arena was viewed by national sporting organisations as not big enough.
"The only way to build it bigger - given the floor space and the parking space - would have been a huge jump in price for a few additional seats.
"And there is still no guarantee we would get a major test.
"If we did, it would only be one every two or three years."
Lundy said he had a job to go to but was still tying up loose ends and could not say where he was going.
His replacement at the Edgar Centre will be long-serving staff member Blair Crawford.
