TERRACE

STANDARD

USINESS REVIEW

Liquidator moves into
former Co-op buildin

Crazy Willy’s

testing market

By JEFF NAGEL
CRAZY WILLY’s Buy and
Sell Ltd. - a Prince Geor-
ge-based liquidator — has
set up shop in the old Ter-
race Co-op building for the
next couple of months.

The temporary foray
into the Terrace market is
to sell off eight truckloads
of pet food and pet sup-
plies the outlet bought
after a warehouse fire in
Kelowna, Crazy Willy’s
owner Ben Meisner said.

Some merchandise,
which came from a Total
Pet Supplies store and
warehouse, is smoke-da-
maged but most is fine,
and will be liquidated at
deep discounts, Crazy
Willy’s officials say.

The outlet could open
within a week once met-
chandise is organized.

Crazy Willy’s, which
bought the pet food fram
Total Pet’s insurer, was
nat able to sell the skids of
dog and cat food and other
supplies in Prince George
because the pet store also
has an outlet there.

Meisner said he has
long eyed the Terrace
market, and chose to sell
the supplies here, rather
than take them to Alberta.

“ve always thoughl
Terrrace is a very interest-

Out &
About

Cable firm to
spend $2.5m

MONARCH Cabiesystems
officials say they’re spend-
ing $2.5 million in Terrace

this year on a major lech- *

nical upgrade to the cable
system here.

The upgrade follows
Monarch’s purchase, com-
pleted in March, ‘of the
OKS Cable,
Cablevision system here.

“We believe this is a -
growth opportunity up .

here,” Monarch operations
manager Janice Gillies
said,

Much of the work in-
volves new equipment and

. electronics being installed

at the new cabie office on
South Kalum St.

The upgrade will allow me

Monarch to offer digital
cable TY, music and pay

per view channels in the ~

months ahead, Gillies said.
The cable industry is
adding new channels to
stem incursions into its
market from satellite TV.
Monarch has also
switched to a new model
of cable modem here, say-
ing it will improve high
speed Internet access.

Overwaitea

work to start

CONSTRUCTION is ex-
pected to start as early as
this week on the major re-
novation and expansion of

Overwaitea’s grocery store,
Paul Gipps, the city’s: -

MERCHANDISE was moved into the old Co-op building last week for a tem-
porary sell-off by a Prince George-based liquidator.

or Skeena -

ing market, a very under-
rated market,” Meisner
said.

He said he isn’t active-
ly considering a permanent
Store here, but adds this
venture is a good way to
test the market.

“[’m going to have a
sniff look,” he said, adding
it may lead to closer con-
sideration of a store here.

The area may have dif-
ficulty right now, he said,
but thinks Terrace’s long
term future is a bright one.

“It’s going to be the Ed-
monton of the Pacific
northwest,” Meisner said.
“No question about it.”

“It’s far too difficult to

go from Terrace ta Prince
George easily,” he said.
“You're going to have a
northern service centre in
the Pacific northwest.”

“It’s not going to be Ki-
timat. It’s not going to be
Prince Rupert. It’s not
going ta be Smithers, It’s
going to be Terrace.”

Meisner said even
Costco officials he’s
talked to are intrigued by
the Terrace market.

The arrival of a convoy
of trucks bearing merchan-
dise at the Co-op last
Wednesday instantly
fuelled incorrect rumours
that Staples office supply
depot was moving in.

Staples officiais had
previously confirmed they
were examining property
in Terrace, believed to be
the Co-op. site.

However officials with
Don Hull and Sons Con-
tracting, which owns the
Co-op site, say there have
been no recent talks with
the prospective tenant.

Meanwhile, the move
toward buiiding a Cana-
dian Tire store in Prince
Rupert may be on hold.

The Prince Rupert Daily
News reports developers
want to delay a deal on
land there because of un-
certainty from the Skeena
Cellulose crisis.

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