This Police Station is a testament to a City that has no fiscal responsibility.

Its these types of ventures, that show without a doubt the contempt that is shown for the value of tax dollars.

Half a million dollars for Offsite Works?
WTF is that?
I thought they were building an all encompassing glittering police palace?
What is worth a half a million dollars that is offsite?

As one who hopes to be living and paying taxes in PG for many years to come, my vote is in favor of the very attractive new RCMP building. I hope this helps to raise the bar for other structures in our town. Sure, they could have built a square concrete block building (think eastern Europe) but we can do better than that.

Well, I think it is ugly — and it’s style certainly does not fit in with the buildings across the street. It may not be a concrete block but it certainly is an obvious fortress.

Like it or not, this building is a big piece of the downtown revitalization. A significant improvement on the old run-down buildings of before.
And who can argue with a weapons rack for the police which costs less than a ford taurus?
(do they still make ford taurus?)
The real complaining should be how much the trades are charging us! ;-)

10 dollar millionaires seems to be the new norm

10 dollar millionaires seems to be the new norm

“The real complaining should be how much the trades are charging us!”

The wages paid to tradesmen are minuscule as compared to what everyone above them is getting paid by a long shot.

Furbank Your wish will come true, because every year you live in Prince George your taxes will increase.

“Like it or not, this building is a big piece of the downtown revitalization”

This building will do absolutely nothing to bring life into the downtown core. In fact, by building it in that location, the city has infringed on the future of downtown revitalization because there is once less piece of land available to support projects which would actually help to revitalize the area.

A perfect example is downtown Ottawa. In the area with all of the office buildings, the place is a dead zone after 5PM or 6PM. That’s because there is literally nothing to attract people there. It’s primarily a place people head to work and they leave when they are done. That’s downtown PG.

Other parts of Ottawa are very vibrant though. These would include places like the Byward Market, Bank Street, areas adjacent to the canal, Westboro village, etc. These are places where restaurants, retail, residential and other “drawing” features all merge together. This is not downtown PG. PG’s “drawing” features are spread out across every corner of the city, making it impossible to have these things working together to create a vibrant downtown core.

Let me understand the supporters of this public expense.
The argument is that this downtown revitalization (ahem, cough, cough), that has been talked about since I arrived in 1976, is now to be anchored around a civil enforcement facility?

So I guess our illustrious elected leaders have taken a cue from totalitarian regimes in that a more visible presence of “The Authorities” will garner growth in a fading downtown?

This building cannot be defended on any level.

As I said above, it is a testament of a City that has no fiscal responsibility, and no idea as to what a police station should look like, and where is should be located.

Even the price of the property which came in at some $2,750,000.00 was out of line for a police station.

Have you people taken a good hard look at the current piece of crap building they currently have? It doesn’t even have a parking lot now!

For the amount of crime in this city this station is going to be welcomed by many. We all pay for it and I’m all for it. If you don’t think this is a huge project for the city, even if it cost $40 million, than maybe you should move some place where they build nothing and see if your complaining gets you anywhere.

Your tax dollars hard at work doesn’t always mean you get to have upgraded and paved streets, sidewalks, street lights, a playground on every corner, a new water park, traffic lights, bike lanes, or even snow removal. You get a say in where you tax dollars go, so instead of complaining on a site, make your voices heard when projects get proposed. Stuff breaks, costs money. Costs get higher and that costs us money over time. Residents want and want, that costs money!

I can see most of the complainers are on this website more than any other news page in Prince George. I can defend a building that is needed more than a new hotel or shopping centre.

Palopu writes, “This building cannot be defended on any level.

As I said above, it is a testament of a City that has no fiscal responsibility, and no idea as to what a police station should look like, and where is should be located.”

Well actually your right, thats because this building doesn’t need defending! I suppose YOU have an idea of what a police station should “look like”? Please enlighten me. What does one in your view “look Like”?. An eastern european gulag? This building is the RCMP center for ALL of Northern BC, a fairly large area, should we have built another, slightly larger square building? I suspect no matter the shape or size you would find something to complain about. And as for its location, YOU think locating the Police Station in the center of town is a mistake? Where should it be, Hart highway? You clearly have no clue and lots of time to complain, please continue making no sense.

Posted by: Knowledge88
This building is the RCMP center for ALL of Northern BC, a fairly large area,,,,,,,

I think you may be mistaken, knowledge, this building is the new digs for the city detachment, the other RCMP station (5th & Ospika) aka North District, serves as regional HQ, and home to the 911 telephone operators.
The North District building was pretty fancy and very expensive when it was built, and I don’t recall hearing as much controversy over the cost or the design as with this latest nobstrosity. In my opinion, they should have spent the extra bucks and incorporated parking under the building, whether on grade or underground. Buying the parking lot across the street was just a desperate move by a desperate crowd, trying to make the cost of building a new station seem lower. Ugly building anyway.
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