Special Website to Feature Downtown P.G.
Prince George, B.C. – Before the end of this year, a new website, focusing on downtown Prince George, will be launched.
Building on the success of the “Small Town Love” project that has been promoted by Northern Development Initiative Trust, the project promotes local businesses in smaller northern B.C. communities.
www.lovedowntownprincegeorge.com will attempt to spread the message about independent small business in the core of Prince George.
“It’s about promoting buying locally” says Downtown Prince George Executive Director Carla Johnston. “Downtown Prince George will be the host organization for the project. We are going to feature local, independently owned and operated businesses within the DBIA boundary and for this year, it will be basically a website that will feature those businesses.”
This program has been very successful in smaller communities throughout Northern B.C. , but the focus on downtown Prince George will make this installment a bit of a pilot project because it’s focusing on a particular neighbourhood says Johnston.
Johnston says there is a real trend for a “shop local” movement “This promotion plays into that, it’s a tool for people to identify those businesses”.
Oddly enough, Northern Hardware, which has been operated by four generations of the same family, doesn’t qualify to be featured in this program because it has a franchise association since it joined forces with Home Hardware.
Businesses are being invited to take part in one of two workshops that have been planned to share more information with independent local operators. One session is set for Thursday from 4-5 pm. another is slated for Friday morning from 8-9 a.m. Both sessions will be held at the Northern Development Initiative Trust.
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Until the downtown business’ start thinking of the whole town and promote all local business, they will continue to alienate themselves and drive customers away. PG isn’t big enough to say oh just support your local business downtown.
We have lots of so-called promotional websites that nobody visits. Why is this one any different?
I look forward to seeing this website. I look forward to sharing it as much as I can on social media.
I agree with lildigger – this website should be opened to include ALL local business in the City as well as the entire Regional District.
Turn downtown P.G. into a historical site like Barkerville which can be used yearly for what P.G. is most famous for “PRIDE PARADES” and move on with the rest of the cities potential.
I look forward to this website. There are some really neat local businesses downtown where I shop and looking forward to finding more.
To little to late. The city is sprawled all over the map.
Cheers
It is pretty simple. Ndit is subsidizing downtown business’ descriminately of businesses that are local and not downtown.
Is that a good use of taxpayer money?
Is it fair to other local businesses?
I recall a conversation a group of us had a couple of years ago about the downtown and I will not forget the response of a twenty-four year old when we were all discussing how many visits we usually made to our city center.The young man said why should I go down there,there is absolutely no reason or anything for me or my friends to do down there!Maybe some people at city hall should wake up and realize this someday and apply measures to help correct this problem,and get our young people back visiting our downtown.
You are so right jakeadoo. I still can’t figure out what the benefit is to me of the DBIA. I have paid the fees on my C1 zone land taxes for years because I have to. I cannot see why the DBIA has a paid person when the Gateway seems to manage things on their own. You know how it is when you have a make work project you need money every year to pay staff. NDTI and IPG are a whole other issue of uselessness.
Clearly someone didn’t think this through completely, with a URL like that it will be difficult for people at a glance to remember due to the length alone. Just like the informational webpages posted by Northern Health with a URL that is so darn long and un-reasonable no one goes there. It will take so long for the search engines to troll through the site that it won’t have the “bang” that’s expected.
Not trying to be a downer, but it always seems to be too little, too late with these “good ideas”. Then they always seem to bend someone’s beak because they are not “included” in the master plan. We will just have to keep an eye on it and see where it goes…..
Putting up a website to promote the downtown is so 2002.
Lovedowntownprincegeorge ?
Love?
Not until it is cleaned it up! Go after the landlords, even the absentee landlords and tell them to either renovate their old dilapidated shacks or tear them down! If they don’t do it the City will do it and bill them! The City had no problem making up a new Code of Ethics for itself, so it can make up a Code of Appearance Standards for Buildings in the City, including the downtown! Then simply enforce it with no exception.
There’s nothing at that URL now. But, I’m not sure the length matters. How often do people type in a URL from memory? They usually click on a link or or google for it, and then click on a link. A URL that contains the relevant keywords is likely to show up in a search.
PG’s downtown doesn’t need a website, it needs businesses, parks and attractions that will draw people into it. Until you have that, the website is pointless.
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Lovedowntownprincegeorge ?
Love?
Not until it is cleaned it up! Go after the landlords, even the absentee landlords and tell them to either renovate their old dilapidated shacks or tear them down! If they don’t do it the City will do it and bill them! The City had no problem making up a new Code of Ethics for itself, so it can make up a Code of Appearance Standards for Buildings in the City, including the downtown! Then simply enforce it with no exception.
Finally someone who makes sense. We should promote this guy to Mayor!
Just for fun, Click on “Entrepreneurs” at lovedowntownpg.com, and then click on the Application at the bottom of the page. Not matter what you answer, you will NOT qualify for the project. LOL!!
Nice work. The web developer is knob.
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