Civic Plaza Alteration Begins
Prince George, B.C. – The job of transforming the Civic Centre Plaza into the Canada Games Plaza has begun.
Work crews were on site this week to kick off the job of revamping the plaza for the 2015 Canada Winter Games. The $945 thousand project, which was scaled back from the original concept earlier this year, is funded for $500,000 by the City, $30,000 by NDI Trust, just under $80,000 by the province and $335,000 by the federal government.
Originally the project timeline called for work to get underway in June, with a grand opening this November to coincide with the 100 day countdown to the Games and to the City’s 100th anniversary. While stating “It’s a project that’s being run by and organized by and handled by the City of Prince George”, Games Communications Manager Alyson Gourley-Cramer says “I don’t know if they’re on track to meet that deadline but it’s absolutely a deadline that we are planning for. We are planning on celebrating that one hundred day countdown on November 4th, 2014 with the City as the official opening and re-naming of the plaza. And that day will also be the official start of the northern B.C. section of the torch relay in the plaza.”
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Its a project thats being run by and organized by and handled by the City of Prince George
Scary…
watch the tax $$$$$ go up , we will pay . What is happening with the new Delta Hotel ?
To bad it got scaled back. Civic Plaza is ugly and needs this. What could possibly go wrong?
3 dressed up as a 9!
Why are we talking about 500M, 30M,80M and 300M – This Is Costing taxpayers 945M! Forget the small numbers. Oh yeah, 530M of that will be covered by CITY TAXPAYERS, who will be double dipped!
Pookerjams: In my opinion, the Civic plaza of last month is attractive enough, adequately functional and is good enough for the 2015 Winter Games. I expect that when it is to be used for the games it could be covered by ice and snow.
What a waste of hard earned taxpayer funds – throw this whole crew out!!!! in November!
FedUp: We ain’t seen anything yet – wait till the final numbers of the games are made public – of course the instigators will most likely be long gone.
All that money spent and what will it look like for the winter games… Like snow. As of course it will be snow covered.
If only we would see the true cost of the games, but we won’t. Because they will lie to us again.
Btw I love how the repaving of the highway stops at tabor mountain..lol. And paving to otway, bet those costs will be shuffled nicelt
We could have rented a snow maker and made sure everything was covered in snow. Would have been cheap and looked nice
Nuffsaid, that is K not M. The PAC is in the M.
Question is, they already spent 200k I thought – of our 500k…is this still included in that number or are we on the hook for more?
And the ugly unfinished hotel structure will stick out like a sore thumb.
Yup, silk purse from a sow’s ear! lipstick on a pig etc…..
Thank you slinky
Slinky, do you really think they will tell us the real cost…lol. Of course not, we will get some line of crap from our $300,000 a year spin doctor team saying we are debt free or made money off the games..
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