One Down, One to Go
Pile of rubble used to be Ed Delorme Garage – photo 250News
Prince George, B.C. – The Ed Delorme Garage on George Street, south of 6th Avenue has been demolished. All that’s left to do is haul debris from the site. Crews started the demolition on Tuesday and expect to have the site cleared of debris by the end of this week. The Capital expenditure plan had allotted $120 thousand dollars for this project, the actual price of the job was not available at publication time.
Next door, the old Norgate Autobody building will soon have a date with a wrecking crew.
The capital plan for that demolition called for $470 thousand dollars to be spent on the job. Recently, $20 thousand was spent with an environmental consultant to deal with the asbestos issues in that particular site before the building can be taken down.
Both sites are to be leveled and according to the capital plan “provide interim parking” although the block has been earmarked as a preferred site for a Performing Arts Centre in Prince George.
Below, the Norgate site ( image courtesy Google Earth)
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It’s about time.:)
I agree it’s a good thing to see some old empty buildings cleared away. Even if for the time being it will just be a parking lot. The less eye sores in this town the better.
Make PG something nice to look at. Like Quesnel. Quesnel doesn’t have a lot of beautiful buildings, but they keep the streets clean, plant flowers and the buildings are fairly well maintained. It’s amazing how some paint and some flowers makes a big difference. PG pride……we need more of it!!
If one assume’s that this property will eventually be used for a Performing Arts Centre, then we should start to keep track of the cost.
These demolition costs along with the consultant total $610,000.00 and that does not include the cost of the property in the first place, so we are well on our way to spending millions without any input by taxpayers.
The original story was that the site would be cleared for handing out medals for the Winter Games. I guess they have decided against that plan.
So once again the City has huge dollars for these types of covert operations, but are unable to hold the line on taxes. Hmmmmm.
As much as you are probably right Palapou, we can’t write off the money to all going towards to cost of a PAC.
Tearing those buildings down is as much to do with beautification as it is a PAC.
Those old decrepit buildings had to come down. What an eye sore.
They wanted to hand out the medals there, wow all of Canada is going to be here is it just me or is P.G just one big eye sore to everyone coming here. This town is a one big dump to show off to Canada and I for one is embarrassed.
I agree with Palopu. If the properties had not been bought by the city for the purpose of becoming the future site of the PAC, the owners would have sold them to some other purchasers who would have had to pay for a consultant (?) and the cost of demolition before anything else could
Therefore, logically, all the costs must be assigned to thr PAC project as soon as the announcement is made that the site will definitely have the PAC constructed on it!
@PG,
So we just throw away all the other reasons?
before anything else could be erected.
“So we just throw away all the other reasons?”
What are the other reasons? I agree that it is better to have a parking lot instead of those empty buildings but to pretend that money spent so far by the City has nothing at all to do with the future PAC (if it is built there) just doesn’t cut it!
Any other reasons?
More paved parking. Just what the down town needs. How about a park, or would that look to nice?
Cheers
Retired 02
Unfortunately a park would be taken over by the homeless, and addicts. A great idea, but look at the small park on first ave, same thing. I would rather have a parking lot.
I agree with you mwk…..Quesnel is a pretty little town….is very clean also.
has anyone asked about recycling the building products for either of these buildings..
-concrete bricks can be reused if undamaged
-wooden beams recycled for reuse
– concrete, broken concrete blocks can be ground up, material used as fill or a base course for paving; metal removed, recycled; plate glass recycled, overhead access doors removed and resold or reused.
this would help the cost of getting the buildings removed.
Looks to me that they tore down the wrong building. It should have been the other one in the background.
We simply cannot afford a PAC. End of story. Any other Questions?lol.
It cost maybe $30,000 to tear down that building. So why would it be $600,000?
Total incompentcy here.
Quesnel is awesome with all that excellent industrial traffic flowing through it 24/7.
Posted on Thursday, November 6, 2014 @ 2:45 PM by onemansthoughts
It cost maybe $30,000 to tear down that building. So why would it be $600,000?
Total incompentcy here.
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Includes all the hundreds of thousands already spent on the PAC.
Who would be interested in building a nice new structure downtown with a bunch of derelict buildings surrounding you? Thank goodness for removing these eyesores.
Spending a little money to attract new money is a good investment in my opinion.
But, I don’t think the city should be in the real estate business. They haven’t done well in that department. Let the developers take on the risk and responsibility.
Dragon: “Quesnel is awesome with all that excellent industrial traffic flowing through it 24/7.”
Exactly. It needs a bypass.
Posted on Thursday, November 6, 2014 @ 4:01 PM by Dragonmaster
Quesnel is awesome with all that excellent industrial traffic flowing through it 24/7.
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“Traffic” “flowing” and “Quesnel” are three words you don’t often see in the same sentence. :)
Seems to me that these buildings were sitting there for 10 years more or less, and now all of a sudden they have to come down. Could be the Winter Games, however more likely a lead in to the PAC
So… you guys believe that a vacant old automotive shop has been beneficial to downtown for the past 20 years?
Maybe one day there will be a PAC there, maybe somewhere else. In either case, I didn’t see the Ed Delorme Garage or the vacant Norgate Autobody generating traffic to the downtown core, nor any revenue to the city. Maybe I’m not there at the right time of day?
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