The Crowsnest Pass Economic Development Board is developing an implementation plan to provide recommendations on establishing a Discovery Centre for the Crowsnest Pass area. The implementation plan is considered an essential step towards the development of the larger initiative, which will generate new employment opportunities and increased economic activity for the region.
“The implementation plan will identify how the Crowsnest Discovery Centre could have a significant economic impact on the community and outline how the facility will reduce the footprint on the land by incorporating adaptive re-use of an existing structure,” said Shar Lazzarotto, Manager of Community Futures Crowsnest Pass. “We expect the facility to provide employment opportunities and economic generation to the community, and fit in well with the developers plan for the property and the community’s heritage theme.”
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9 comments:
Take the word discovery out and are we back to step 1.
Does this mean the Pass gets to keep another old, rundown building that we will never have enough money to operate or maintain?
We got a 'whopping' $75,000. So what is the big deal, Dean?
Check out the Sparwood Discovery Center, it's a piece of cement with a chain link fence around it.
Hi folks, just keeping my readers up to date. I would love to see something happen in the Pass. But if they are going to go down this avenue they are going to have to go a long way to convince me.
Every time I get a little excited about these types of ideas. I reach back and pull out my copy of the Nokomis report from 1989, look at the wonderful drawing of what our "Convention Centre" would look like in a few short years. Read the business plan that showed the place making big $$$ and creating 50 jobs by the mid 1990"s. Then I realize that it was all just a "dream".
Dean I love these people that think you could make money on the Centre In what year was it that the accountants raised serious concerns about the accuracy of the information supplied to them?
Rather than spending $75,000 on a "study", give it to the Boys and Girls Club. Invest the money in our kids not rusty old eyesores.
Totally agree! Give the money to a worth while group like the Boys & Girls Club which serves working families, rather than to self-serving 'elitists' who are only interested in the past, at the expense of the future.
John
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