Inland Kenworth On the Move

Wednesday, March 08, 2006 03:00 PM

Sign on the property announces what is to come (photo courtesy Inland Kenworth)

The Dealer Manager of Inland Kenworth, Jack Thompson, says the company has purchased the 44 acres on Highway 97 South, across from Sintich Trailer park.

The company will build a new build a new super structure for the dealership at that location and move its current operations from 1995 Quinn Street to the new site..

Thompson says "We are just finishing off a new facility in Nanaimo and we will look northward after that."

When complete, the new dealership will be a full facility dealership using up about 15 acres of the land they have purchased.

The purchase price of the 44 acres is believed to be around $1.5 million dollars.

Harry Backlin, who acted as the facilitator on the project ,said "I have worked on this project for the past 8 or 9 years."

Previously to be developed as the "Airport Plaza", Backlin says a problem with sewer and water for the site had held up development for a long time, that problem has now been solved with the present owners.

The property in question sits next to a large tract of land that has been purchased with the intent of developing an inland container port. That project is not connected to the soon to be announced CN Rail container stuffing facility which will be located on BCRail property.
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Posted on Wednesday, March 08, 2006 03:00 PM in Money by 250 News

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Posted by: owl on March 8 2006 3:37 PM

Well done. A much more appropriate use for the site.

And right adjacent to the new Yellowhead bypass of the City too!!

Posted by: Chadermando on March 8 2006 5:02 PM

Good move, their other location was way to far out of the way.

My only concern is that I always envisioned the ridge looking over the river, Fort George Park, and the city as a prime development property for a park along the ridge with hotels and motels across the street fromt he park also overlooking the city. IMO that kind of development would play on PG's strengths and be a crown jewel along with the university for tourists.

Developing container ports and trucking centers along that ridge could in a way detract from its potential. That said its PG and we all know we don't develop our strengths in this community anyways so....

Posted by: owl on March 8 2006 7:15 PM

Chadermando ... this piece of property is far removed from the area you are talking about.

The northern end of the poperty is 2 miles away from the southern part of the ridge adjacent to the bridge.

Most of the land between there and the ridge is ALR, so does not even show up in the OCP as anything for future development except for the existing trail along the ridge.

There is a large area of land between the ridge and the ALR to the west of the airport which has been deforested and is used to mine gravel and is thus listed as light industrial.

In a city 2 or 3 times the size of PG, such as Saskatoon is for instance, I would expect to see some park associated with higher density housing close to the ridge, as you say, with a view over the city and the sunset over Cranbrook hill.

I think it will always be too far out of the way for normal hotels and motels. unlike cities such as Kamloops, which have natural viewscapes associated with main thorougfares and quie a number of motels have postioned themselves to take advantage of the view overlooking Kamloops.

If you have not already discovered it, you can get a lot of this type of information from the interactive city GIS based map on the net.

http://www.city.pg.bc.ca/pgmap

Posted by: Ice_Phyre on March 9 2006 8:47 AM

It is good to see this section of Prince George getting developed.

Posted by: rocker on March 15 2006 10:13 AM

Good job! Truckers should find it easier to get to the new location and it will be especially great when the scales move farther south.