Old Norgate Coming Down
Demolition of old Norgate Autobody on 6th Avenue is underway – photo 250News
Prince George, B.C.- The demolition of the old Norgate Autobody building on 6th Avenue, east of George Street in Prince George, is underway.
In a cloud of dust, one of the walls came tumbling down, and a piece of the roof flattened the security fence that has been set up on the perimeter of the property.
The site is being cleared for use as a parking lot during the Canada Winter Games.
The site is the preferred location for a Performing Arts Centre in Prince George, although there is no funding available to go through with that project at the moment.
Earlier this month, the old Ed Delorme garage on this block was also demolished.
The demolition of the old Norgate building has taken longer than that of its former neighbour (the Delorme building) as asbestos in the structure needed to be removed before any other work could proceed.
Comments
Gotta make way for the PAC we can’t afford.
Isn’t it amazing how much stuff that has sat around for so long gets dealt with when the winter games is arriving shortly….
I’m convinced that this would necer be getting done otherwise…. or like Fate suggests the PAC is about to get built… and that wouldn’t suprise me either.
Now that this is done, I think something should be done about the old white warehouses that line 1st Avenue at the end of Queensway.
Four Seasons pool location maybe the site for the PAC but that was before Greens backers got blown out the door.
seamut – Don’t hold your breath – the pool and the coliseum could be on the list – there is 4 years of council.
More wasted money, why not just use the foundation of the defunct hotel project for the awards? Lots of parking there as well.
So, during an air quality event, no burning, no sweeping, but it’s ok to demolish a building less than two blocks from where they take the AQ readings. Really??
Posted on Monday, November 17, 2014 @ 2:27 PM by oldman1
seamut – Don’t hold your breath – the pool and the coliseum could be on the list – there is 4 years of council.
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Just a few more years of right wing neglect will produce taxpayer funding for new venues like it did for our new Taj Mahal police station.
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