I could support the pumphouse move, but I think the Joe's one if anything should be a little closer to the casino rather than right next to a residential neighborhood.

In addition to that, the Serta location is very bad traffic-wise. The exit from the JYSK/Futureshop, etc, agglomeration of stores to the west of Boston Pizza is often a bottleneck on the weekend for those turning east. That intersection should be signalized. There is the potential of even more small businesses on the south side of that road which will make it worse.

I think we need home delivery, then we would not require liquor stores on every corner.

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You can alway phone Dial a Bottle, also the 5th Avenue liquor store (5th and Ospika) across from the Regional Police Station advertises **We Deliver**

Never can have to many liquor outlets. When times are good. people drink. When times are bad, people drink. Win win fer everybody. Lotsa taxes for every one. 'Cept the drinker.

Spoz' it would be heretical to point out that there is a problem in that so many people feel the need to alter their moods with substances (in this case alcohol). If living in reality is so difficult we need liquor stores on every corner to meet the demand doesn't that send some kind of a signal to some of the thinking people out there? Don't mind me i just can't help but use the brain i was given to actually think about how our society is going. Please resume consuming alcohol in an attempt to pretend all is well. Sorry for the attempt at interjecting sanity into reality.

Eventually we will be selling liquor in grocery stores as in most places in the world. It takes a long time to get rid of WASP mentality and habits.

Hmmm Rehab is overloaded, no chance of getting in for months..may as well drink.. Oh hey while we're at it why don't we buy some cigarettes so the government can make some more money off the sick and dying. Oh yikes there goes our medical. Yeppers we really need a liquor store on every corner. I agree with you realist.

It would be interesting to find out how much the average per capita spending on alcohol is in Prince George every year.

If excessive drinking and drugs are an increasing problem in PG, why on earth are our city fathers and mothers and aldermen and alderwomen continuing to support the expantion of facilities that contribute to the problem? Chester

It looks to me more like a redistribution rather than an expansion. I think the 1 mile rule would apply to both cases, but who knows maybe anything can happen after the JJ's relocation. Maybe highway 16 could be an entertainment strip, but I just can't see a strip joint flying in a residential neighborhood that had prior problems with an escort agency.

The way nightclubs have been faring in the last 20+ years, I would say this is not the time to put one's money into that business. The Generator has closed for longer than the required 3 days. That has prompted an article which brings the real story of changes in drinking establishments in PG to light.

I suspect public drinking in PG has been “gentrified” over the last 30 years. We have likely changed the types of drinks which are consumed, the types of establishments they are consumed in, and the locations of where these establishments are. That includes the inclusion of more and more specialty coffee in the mix. I would not be surprised if that is partly a switch in spending rather than additional spending.

I think the aging population may play a part in this as well in the tendency to cocoon.

I wish we had some of the old nightclubs back. I miss being able to eat, drink, be with people, listen to some musical entertainment and dance, especially in a mixed crowd that transcends the age groups. Café Voltaire is one of the few establishments where much of that can be done in an olde hippy coffeehouse atmosphere. I miss places like the Schnitzel, the original Yellowhead lounge with entertainers like Ian Tyson playing there, the Fraser Inn lounge, club 770, the old restaurant at the Inn where one could eat, drink, dance ….

Even the original pubs are starting to feel the pinch. The one on Noranda Road, the one in Parkwood which was in the wrong location, the Wadling Duck, and I do not know how well the others are faring, but suspect some not that well. It is no longer a license to make money. If it were, these licenses would not be looking to move around town to position themselves better, with their fingers crossed.