TERRACE. STANDARD | BusINEss REVIEW Out & About Copperside to rebuild PLANS ARE un- derway fora brand new Copperside Foods store to replace the old Cop- perside H at Hwy 16 and Kenney. The new store will be significantly larger at about 4,000 square feet and will include a laundromat and gas bar, says Copperside Foods’ Chris Cormier. They hope to break ground later this year. The new building will be where the old correc- tional centre is. That will allow them to operate the old store while construction is un- derway, and then move into the new outlet. The rest of the old cor- rectional centre land will be held in reserve for fu- ture development, Cormier said. They're considering various possibilities, in- cluding a hotel or a fast food restaurant. He confirmed they'd had talks with a local businessman seeking to bring in a Wendy's Hamburgers franchise. That type of idea fits plans for future expan- sion, “‘Any new devel- opments that we do will incorporate branded fast food outlets,’’ he said. New name THE FORMER Reast- mastir’s coffee house has changed its name to the Ground Works Coffee Company. Owner Mike Parker said he ended his affilia- tion with Roastmastir’s last month. A new sign with the new name is to go up later this week. "I pot the name from a customer,’? Parker said, He’s secured the same suppliers, but a ceramic Roastmastir’s symbol still has to be removed from the middle of the floor, Starts up TERRACE produced the most housing starts in northwestern B.C. in 1996 and was second only to Prince George in all of the north. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. re- corded 142 starts in Ter- race, up more than 50 per cent. That compared to 441 in Prince George, 113 in Quesnel, and 72 in Wil- liams Lake. Staris in Prince Rupert fell 41 per cent to 24 units in °96, and Kilimat starts also declined to nine units. " proposing that all businesses - the job of selling Terrace to that if memberships in the Hotels turf tax idea Extra licence fee may now replace 2 per cent solution LOCAL HOTEL operators have flat-out rejected a proposal to bring in a local two-per cent room tax. The tax would have raised an estimated $60,000 a year to finance the new Terrace Tourism Council's market- ing plan. The tourism council was formed in the wake of city council’s decision to push the job of tourism marketing off onto the businesses that benefit from it But a meeting of the coun- cil last Wednesday saw lo- cal accomodations owners overwhelmingly oppase the tax proposal. Now the council is pay an annual fee to support tourists. Since there’s 1,200 busi- ness licences to share the PETITION POWER: Ed Johnson of the Costa Lessa Motel in Thornhill led the fight by !ocal hotel operators to defeat the Terrace Tourism Council's original plan for a two- per-cent roam tax. burden, that would reduce the cost to about $50 per business. And it could be less than fairness: benefit, collectors. tourism council are sold, ac- cording to council member and city economic develop- ment officer Ken Veldman. ‘Tourism is not just hotels, motels, restaurants and attractions,’ Veldman said. ‘‘It’s also the air con- ditioning guys who work on the hotels, the plumbing guys who work on the restaurants.’” “Tourism filters down through the general business community.” Veldman said most hotel operators didn’t think the tax would affect demand, but said it was a question of Country Inn. motels,’” Johnson concemed OWwlers, everyone would while the hotels would serve as the only tax “Our customers and Ca- nadians in general are sick and tired of taxes,’’ Jacqui Munson, “We didn’t want to be the only tax collectors,” added Costa Lessa Motel owner Ed Johnson. “Everybody in town profits from this — not just the said he’s. still Terrace council might still iry to steamroll the tax over hotel “We're going to continuc the petiiton and put il to. council,’’ be said, Veldman said the tax seemed like a good idea, be- cause the money would come primarily from out- siders and it would cover -K Thornhill and rural opera- said tors as well. of Bear poi together a proposal where the funding source is looked upon very un- favourably by a major seg- ment of the people we're supposed to be working for.”? He said the tourism coun- cil will formulate a proposal based on a business licence surcharge, and take it to city council for consideration. Veldman said that on the up side the local hotel oper- ators endorsed the council's tourism ‘marketing plan. hotels and city Poor snow clearing said to have hurt Christmas sales THE CHAMBER of commerce says Christ- mas business suffered because of poor city snow clearing. Chamber president Skip Bates said streets were in very poor condition on Dec. 14-15 — the second-last shopping weekend be- fore Christmas — and people were afraid to venture downtown. “The Chamber office has received calls about this, many of them stating it was one of the worst days for sales during the Christmas season,”’ Bates said. The complaint was referred for discussion fo the council’s committee-of-the-whole. The incumbent councillors say there are always complaints when there's a major snowfall, but noted those large dumps simply exceed the ability of the available machinery to deal with it. Councillor David Hull said the city can pour more money into snow clearing — if taxpayers are willing to pay a lot more for it. He said comparisons to Kitimat aren’t ap- plicable because industries there are more dependent on workers getting to work, and said Kitimat spends ‘‘upwards of $2 mil- lion a year’? snow clearing, comparcd to Parking Lot smal? Snow Removal - Excavating GIL BEINTEMA Ph, & Fax 638-7277 Cellular 638-2860 Terrace’s $317,000. Hull said that budget would have to be more than doubled before residents would begin to notice a significant difference. ‘'When you get two fect at once it’s near impossible,’” he said. Meanwhile, city director of enginecring Stew Christensen says the city spent jusl about every nickel it budgeticd for snow clearing in 1996, He estimates about $315,000 was spent out of the overall snow clearing budget of $317,000 for the 1996 calendar year. We've had an exceptional amount of snowfall so far this year, Christensen said, and the only reason that didn’t blow the budget is that there was unusually litle snow early in 1996. “There was no snow after the 8th of Jan- wary last winter that was significant enough that we had to plow it,”’ Christensen said. But if we continue at the present pace, the city’s snow dumps on Davis Ave. and near the curling club will soon rival last year’s. Christensen said winter sidewalk maintenance was significantly over budget, coming in at $39,000 instead of the budgetted $32,000. 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