Gerry Offet talks with James Evans on CBC

This morning Gerry Offet was interviewed by James Evans of Daybreak North on CBC:

When I came here three years ago I was really impressed with the variety and quality of the local performing arts. It astounded me when I learned that the venues were scattered all over the city, that one group is using a converted warehouse, another group a converted firehall, and many groups are using an auditorium in a high school.

Most communities in North America of our size and with our cultural diversity do make an investment in a performing arts centre.

Here's the entire interview (5:44):


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Offet makes reference to an investment marketing study that was done last year. That report, entitled "Downtown Prince George Marketing Implementation Plan," can be found here.

Invitation to download, print, e-mail, share

For those who want to help spread the word, here's and invitation you can download and print, or e-mail to your contact list.

It's the one I've been using as I go all around downtown to encourage more people to attend the meeting — I think it's important that those who own businesses or work downtown also attend to support more positive development downtown.

The pdf can be downloaded by clicking here.

Is there something the average person doesn't know about a George Street PAC?

I found this statement a little odd when I read in in the Prince George Citizen this morning:

Further work is also planned for the lobby, restaurant, pub and the 120 rooms in the original tower, but how quickly it will be pursued will depend on whether a new performing arts centre will be built somewhere on George Street.

Is there already some kind of plan in place, or is just based on the ideas presented in the 2001 Official Community Plan? (pdf map here) After all, many times the OCP is ignored and written off as simply "a guideline."

Full Citizen article here.

Arts centre meeting set

The Prince George Citizen reports on the special meeting to discuss the development of a performing arts center on page 13 of the Friday, February 9th issue:

There's been so much interest from the community for a performing arts centre that there will be a special meeting held next week to discuss feasability.

Full article can be found in the library archives (Canada Newstand) here.