Demolition of the seating at Canada Games Plaza is underway as Tourism PG revamps the space for more outdoor use.
“What’s going to happen to start is there will be four shipping containers,” said Colin Carson, chief executive officer, Tourism Prince George. “Hopefully the market adds to these events and makes them better,” Carson said. “To do so we needed to make sure we weren’t putting the containers right in the middle, allowing for things like stages to come in so that’s why the seating needed to be removed.”“So it will be four shipping containers and the artificial ice that will all be in by the end of November,” Carson confirmed.He outlined the plans for the market.
As the situation with the unhoused in the community continues, Carson said Tourism PG, which spent the summer in the middle of the plaza, had only positive interactions with users of the space.