Pomeroy President Says City Did Not Offer To Build A Plan For Golf Course

Wednesday, December 05, 2007 03:52 AM

The President of the Pomeroy Group of Companies says to the best of his knowledge the City of Prince George did not offer to spend $60 to $80 thousand dollars to develop a plan for the golf club lands when his company partnered with BFW, (a Langley company) to explore the project.

Ryan Pomeroy says"We dealt in good faith, we couldn’t find enough comfort in the deal that we were looking at. Things don’t always work out and we are always interested in the deal, the decision was theirs."

Pomeroy says he would take another look at the project "It is a great property, has great potential, and we would still be interested in perhaps building a hotel at that location. "

He says The Pomeroy Group did not feel comfortable with the deal,"We worked on it for two years, and we put lots of money into the project along with a good deal of time. The City of Prince George however did not at any time offer to develop a plan for the golf course that I am aware of,."

Yesterday, the City announced it will be hiring a consultant to develop a neighbourhood plan for the property which is the current home to the Prnce George Golf and Curling Club, the Pine Centre Mall, Pine Valley Golf Course and the Prince George Playhouse.

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Posted on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 03:52 AM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: YamaDooPolCat on December 5 2007 7:58 AM

Good exercise for the city, doing a development plan. Anytime a developer brings in a plan the city wants changes. This way the city can go fight with themselves. Heehee!

Developers will be able to look the "plan" and decide whether it is financially feasible. Most developers will tell you the city doesn't have a good handle on that end of a project. Therefore this is a exercise.

If the plan isn't a money maker, the golf course members aren't going anywhere as no one would be interested. This going to be interesting! At least the developer doesn't have to recoup the costs the taxpayers are to pay on this one.

Posted by: Common Sense on December 5 2007 10:45 AM

This is heading for a huge disaster, our city development team can't even keep up with work at hand, how will they find time for this?

Posted by: RRrabbitt on December 5 2007 11:04 AM

What ?? The City has a "development team"... that's a shock !! Perhaps they are the ones who hire the consultant to do the work instead of the "team". Never have understood why the City has a group of engineers on staff to hire outside engineers to engineer stuff that needs to be engineered by engineers ...

Any potential developer will have to pay for the plan eventually ... one way or the other... that's why the City has "development cost charges".

:-)

Posted by: diplomat on December 5 2007 12:49 PM

"...our city development team can't even keep up with work at hand, how will they find time for this?"

Don't worry, nobody is going to break into a sweat, that is why the work (and ultimate responsibility) will be contracted out!

Remember all the studies contracted out in respect to the Cameron Street Bridge project?

We like to do things in a roundabout way!

Cheers!

Posted by: red2b on December 5 2007 1:07 PM

The city will end up buying the golf course land to do the development themselves, or sit on the land. There is no way they will leave the golf club 'high and dry' without a buyer.
The city could have contributed the $80,000.00 cost toward trees to start replacing the trees on the course. Not very many cities of this size have an 18 hole and 9 hole golf course smack in the middle. If some action would have started 2 or 3 years ago the new trees could have been looking pretty good by now.