Interest high in old site of wax museum
Bidders have six weeks to make play for CPR Steamship Terminal
By Carla Wilson, Times Colonist February 3, 2011 2:05 AM
http://www.timescolo...6302/story.html
Posted 03 February 2011 - 06:16 AM
Interest high in old site of wax museum
Bidders have six weeks to make play for CPR Steamship Terminal
By Carla Wilson, Times Colonist February 3, 2011 2:05 AM
Posted 03 February 2011 - 09:52 AM
Posted 03 February 2011 - 10:28 AM
Posted 03 February 2011 - 11:48 AM
Here's a radical, out-of-the-box idea: why don't we turn the old passenger ship terminal into a...passenger ship terminal?
Posted 03 February 2011 - 12:51 PM
If you combined the Black Ball ticket office with the Maritime Museum, and staff it with Wax Museum figures, then eveybody wins. As a bonus, you could also run a tourist steam train back and forth to the Cruise ship Terminal.
Posted 03 February 2011 - 01:20 PM
Posted 03 February 2011 - 03:34 PM
I'm having trouble finding a steam engine.Bingo, there is still time to submit your official proposal.
Posted 03 February 2011 - 04:21 PM
Posted 03 February 2011 - 04:37 PM
I like the terminal idea...it would be great if there was already a building that was owned by the public.
Posted 03 February 2011 - 05:58 PM
Posted 03 March 2011 - 08:28 PM
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Posted 15 March 2011 - 09:57 PM
I hope it isn't going to be a reincarnation of the failed BC Experience.
Posted 15 March 2011 - 10:34 PM
Landeca CEO Michael Dingle said the company is working on behalf of a client and he is unable to offer any detail on who the client is or what they intend to do with the building.
"We are a land-use planning firm, we are in the business of helping our clients arrive at the highest and best use of property," said Dingle, who would offer no hint about the identity of his client.
Some letter writers to the Times Colonist have suggested the CPR building would be ideal for the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, and the gallery itself has said it would like a downtown location.
The Landeca website lists the gallery as one of its causes.
Posted 16 March 2011 - 06:14 PM
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Posted 16 March 2011 - 11:36 PM
^I guess the ferry companies couldn't or wouldn't put a bid together. Shame.
Posted 17 March 2011 - 04:18 AM
^That's funny, I wondered if Matt McNeil was involved but I assumed it would be a pub, not a market. Although now that I think of it, both Pike Place Market and Granville Island have famous brew pubs so maybe that is his plan. Recall that Matt had wanted a east-coast themed pub at the old nightclub below Wharfside but that never happened so maybe this is his plan "B".
I think a brew pub is essential to subsidize a market because the rent there is very high and you can only sell so many candles and carrots year-round to make that rent.
If they plan on high volume market sales you need big loading zones and lots of parking. Who would the market serve? Thrifty is only a few blocks away. Why would people make an extra trip?
Posted 18 March 2011 - 01:05 PM
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