TERRACE STANDARD Business Review ~ Out & About - Businesses ~ up in ‘90s THE NUMBER of business licences issued by the City _- Of Terrace rose’ consider- ably through the 1990s. The decade ended with -1,174 business licences -- active, compared to 926 in ~ 1990 — an increase of 27 per cent. -/:. The” number actually peaked at 1,288 in 1997 . and -has declined mar- _ ginally over the past two years, mirroring the city’s ~~~ slump in construction over ~_./vthe same period. Smithers will _get big box A CANADIAN TIRE store is expected to open in Smithers by this fall. ‘The project got the final £0-ahead from Smithers town council this month “with the issuance of a de- :., velopment permit. | Its 20,000 square foot .- tetail floor will be about ‘30 per cent smaller than the Terrace store’s, with eight auto service bays - and a garden centre. ".” The Smithers store is “expected to cut into the amount of shopping traffic : ‘that presently comes to Terrace from the Hazel- tons area and points east. Terrace store manager Bob Nearing said his store gets customers from as far as Smithers and Houston. _ But he’s not expecting a major loss of business. “Terrace . is. still the ad ‘commercial : ‘centre, at “he said, “They ‘come. here for other businesses.” New elevator Hotel plans a reno IT LOOKS like a mine- shaft right now, but the Coast Inn of the West will soon have the city’s new- est elevator. “We've had to hand-dig a hole,” says hotel manag- er Doug Barrett. The $150,000 project is part of various renovations the hotel is contemplating this year. The elevator will go all the way to the roof, Barrett: added, in case its possible ‘to expand the hotel up- wards. He said the hotel thinks it could add as many as 35 units above the west wing and the restaurant. “We have engineers looking at the viability of ‘increasing in size,” he said. They’d also plan ta do some work on the lobby this year, switch to a key- less card system of door locks, and fd a way to add some form of fitness centre to the hotel. Corporate customers * expect those kinds of serv- ices, he added. “This is all stemming from and counting on our economy starting to pick up and boom again this year,’ ” Barrett said. WORKERS are excavating a big hole in the base- ment of the Coast Inn of the West for foundations of an elevator. Because it’s in the middle of the building, crews have to haul away soil and gravel by hand, How many elevators does Terrace have? Between office build- ings, hotels, the hospital and RCMP station, seniors “homes, apartment build- ings and freight elevators, figure at least 20, says Mike Leevers, the Kelow- na-based regional manager for Montgomery Kone Ele- vator Co. They have a technician in Prince Rupert that serv- ices all northwest eleva- tars, he said. Gov't seeks eco-certification for small business logging AS THREATS of consumer boycotts in- crease, the provincial government has de- cided to seck eco-certification of its small business forestry program. Under the plan, a province-wide “environmental management system” will go beyond standards that exist today : “under ‘the“Forest-Practices-Coden : Three different ‘international: cortifica: tion: systerns: willbe tested fn projects: ar" R ound the province. ~ “Virtually every market we have is Valdy / Gary F Performing all g NLY in Kitimat Sponsored in part by Mechpius - Design and Drafting. Supported by British Aris Council aard getting tougher,” forests minister David Zirnhelt said. “It’s not the government dictating this. This is coming from the marketplace.” A huge chunk of operable forest falls under the government’s direct control through its Small Business Program, ac- counting Tor 13 percent of logging in B.C: - “>The: government, plan: ‘to: takeva:g Il” ‘faborative approach,” ‘sharidg costs and . working’ with companies licensed. unider the program. conga by Kitimat Concert Association Saturday, Jan. 29, 2000 at 8 p.m. sharp al the Mount Elizabeth Theatre Tickets at Book Masters or Theatre Lobby day of show. Adults $24, Seniors $22, Students $15 Prices include Mount Elizabeth Theatre Surcharge of $1.50 per ticket. Tickets for Vinak World Dance now on sale. es 4718A Lazelle Avenue, Terrace, B.C. The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 26, 2000 - A7 Q: Do you have a personal investment plan? A: For a balanced portfolio, include: 1. Physical activity 2. 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