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#121 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 08 December 2023 - 10:55 PM

Fascinating is a random trivia account.


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#122 todd

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Posted 09 December 2023 - 08:15 AM

So what's the "X" (Twitter) post all about?

Just press the X in the corner of your screen.

#123 Nparker

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Posted 09 December 2023 - 08:17 AM

Accessing the Twitter post was not my question.

#124 todd

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Posted 09 December 2023 - 08:26 AM

Accessing the Twitter post was not my question.

The one that’s part of your browser.

#125 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 03 February 2024 - 03:20 AM

Oak Bay tries again to plan future of marina property

 

Oak Bay council has agreed to hire a project lead consultant to help guide the planning process
 
 
 
However, during in-camera meetings in 2022, council decided not to proceed with that proposal. No reasons were revealed publicly.
 

After council couldn’t agree on a redevelopment plan, it decided in 2022 to extend Oak Bay Marine Group’s lease by five years and tackle the issue after a new council was elected that fall.

 

In early 2023, Oak Bay Marine Group decided not to continue leasing the 5,900-square-foot restaurant space, with about 130 seats, at the site. Oak Bay Marine Group chief operating officer Brook Catelsky said at the time that, like other restaurants, it had been dealing with labour shortages, supply issues and inflation. He could not be reached for comment Friday

 

The restaurant remains vacant.


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#126 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 03 August 2024 - 08:13 PM

Oak Bay Marina update coming this fall, says mayor

 

 

Final plans for the future of the Oak Bay Marina have yet to surface, according to Oak Bay Mayor Kevin Murdoch. 

 

"We are into the background stuff again," Murdoch said.

 

According to the mayor, it is an exciting project for the district, and important foundational work is still being done. 

 

 

"We are doing financial analysis right now."

 

The marina, located at 1327 Beach Dr., has a lease negotiated in 2022 that expires in 2027. The district owns the land and leases the building, as well as subleases the foreshore.  

 

 

 

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#127 GaryOak

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Posted 04 August 2024 - 08:15 AM

I thought oakbay said they were all built out, they could easily slap down 700 units there.

#128 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 16 September 2024 - 08:24 PM

The District of Oak Bay is embarking on a community-consultation process on the future of Turkey Head, home to the Oak Bay Marina.

 

A request for proposals for a consultant to lead the process closes Oct. 4.

 

Oak Bay Mayor Kevin Murdoch said Friday that involvement of First Nations and the broader community in consultations is “super important” because it’s an important site with a lot of potential. “We want to make sure that we are actually realizing that potential.”

 

Consultants responding to the proposal call are being asked to provide three different approaches to consultation for council to consider.

 

The goal of the process, the proposal says, is to “identify a path forward that is generally supported by Indigenous communities and the Oak Bay community and that meets the four criteria established by council: First Nations partnership, sustainable financial return, site activation and public use and environmental stewardship.”

 

The current lease with the Oak Bay Marine Group for Turkey Head ends in 2027.

 

The property at 1327 Beach Dr. was developed into a marina in the early 1960s by the late Bob Wright. It was the home of Sealand of the Pacific and featured performing whales, but that part of the business was closed down in the 1990s.

 

 

 

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Edited by Victoria Watcher, 16 September 2024 - 08:24 PM.


#129 Nparker

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Posted 16 September 2024 - 08:37 PM

I still miss the Oak Bay Marina Restaurant.



#130 Matt R.

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Posted 17 September 2024 - 03:27 AM

Same. Loved that spot.
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#131 Mike K.

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Posted 17 September 2024 - 06:08 AM

Hold on. Didn’t we already go through this and they decided on an open air market sort of thing?

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#132 max.bravo

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Posted 17 September 2024 - 04:07 PM

How long until the TC runs the predictable OpEd from an outraged renter saying the only acceptable use of the site is low income housing?
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#133 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 14 January 2025 - 06:33 AM

Oak Bay Marine Group sold to Vancouver businessman

 

The sale means Craham Clarke now owns four Vancouver Island marinas, since the deal also includes North Saanich, Ladysmith and Pedder Bay marinas
 
 
 
 

The Oak Bay Marine Group has been sold to a Vancouver businessman whose holdings include Coal Harbour Marina and the Vancouver Harbour Flight Centre.

 

Graham Clarke, owner of the Graham Clarke Group, said Monday the deal represents a return home. He said he grew up in Oak Bay and “pined” for the community after moving to the Lower Mainland with his family in Grade 8. “For me, this is deeply personal.”

 

The Dec. 19 sale for an undisclosed sum comes as the District of Oak Bay aims to revitalize the marina with expanded uses and more amenities.

 

The sale means the 81-year-old now owns four Vancouver Island marinas. Along with Oak Bay Marina, the deal includes North Saanich Marina, Lady­smith Marina and Pedder Bay RV Resort and Marina.

 

It also includes Oak Bay Marine Group’s boathouse-building business, the Marina Dockside Eatery, Cape Santa Maria Beach Resort in the Bahamas, and Ripley’s Believe It or Not! in Newport, Oregon.

 

 

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Clarke chaired the Vancouver Airport Authority for 13 years until 2010. A news release on the sale says his company owns the 250-slip Coal Harbour Marina, the Vancouver Harbour Flight Centre, Harbour Cruises in Vancouver and Western Pacific Marine, which operates ferries in B.C.’s interior and the Lasqueti Island ferry.

 

Harbour Cruises has three vessels, including a paddlewheeler, available for charter in Vancouver.

 

Clarke said he bought the Oak Bay Marine Group knowing that change is on the horizon. “Our intention is to be there for the long term,” he said.

 

Clarke said he has plenty of ideas for the marina — including installing high-tech floats — but out of respect for the district and First Nations, he plans to speak with them first.

 

 

[...]

 

 

Clarke said he was on B.C. Ferries’ Queen of the North when it sank off Hartley Bay in March 2006. At that time, he was interested in running four northern ferry routes in B.C. and was visiting all the stops.

 

Most passengers were asleep but Clarke said he was awake studying marine charts when he heard an impact, followed by another blow to the ship, a “kind of a tearing sound,” and the engines stopped.

 

“I knocked on every door as I was going to the upper deck and ran into the chief steward, who was also knocking to wake people up.”


Edited by Victoria Watcher, 14 January 2025 - 06:37 AM.


#134 Mike K.

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Posted 14 January 2025 - 07:44 AM

*Graham Clarke, not Craham Clarke.

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