New Visitor’s Centre Under Construction in Tumbler Ridge
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(at right, rendering of new Visitor's Centre)
The $1.5 million dollar facility will be post and beam construction and it will not only showcase the area’s attractions, it will also share the history of the area.
The project has been made possible in part by a $250 thousand dollar grant from the Northern Development Initiative Trust.
The Centre will include large open spaces, vaulted ceilings, wheelchair accessibility, a meeting room, gift shop, local history sections as well as offices for the local Chamber of Commerce and Community Development Officer.
It will be a major step up from the small building that is only used during the summer months. The new centre will be open year round and will function as a multi-use facility for the community. Facility rentals and souvenir sales are expected to generate more than $100 thousand dollars in new revenue over the next five years.
This is not the first time Northern Development Trust has helped in the development of tourist information centres. NDIT helped fund such centres in both Valemount and Williams Lake.
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And Tourism PG is crammed into the Via Rail building on 1st Ave…
JohnnyBelt–What do you think? Waste of money!
I wonder if they’ll use a hotel tax to fund it? Oops, looks like NDT will in part fund it; aka the taxpayer.
In the end, it’s all taxpayer dollars.
They can build this for 1.5 million, and an 85,000 square foot Hydro office building for 25 million – but to build a 850 seat theater they want over 50 million???
Oh oh now PG will want one! Actually it is a disgrace where we have to send our visitors to get information.
We need one!
Maybe our MLAs could find a good used Atco trailer for a tourist office.Put some flowers around it,maybe a little crushed rock,two or three hanging baskets,park it maybe along 1st ave and it might look pretty good. Oh another thing invite Christy up from Vic.for a photo op.
Or we could get Northern BC Tourism to sell their downtown real-estate (provincial grant money miscalculated to real estate)… and if they come to the table with their $1.5 million, and PG Tourism matched, then we could build a pretty nice tourism office on a busy corner on a main thoroughfare like highway 16 & 97….
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