Written by Peter McIntyre 107.5 KISSFM Monday, 09 December 2013 14:45
The visitor info centre at the north end of Vernon will be coming down next year. Council has agreed to spend $20,000 to demolish the structure across from Stickle Road and landscape the site, although a traffic pull-out will remain. The city is closing the north and south visitor centres, and consolidating them into a new facility on 39th Avenue next spring. Councillor Bob Spiers has a problem with the new location, and doesn't think many north or south bound tourists will turn off the highway, onto 39th. "By the time you come up to the tourist booth, you're three-quarters of the way through the city. I mean you either stop at one end or completely in the middle," Spiers tells Kiss FM. Close to 300-thousand dollars in hotel tax revenue will be spent to upgrade the former Correale building and city-owned site by the Civic Arena. Mayor Rob Sawatzky says money will be saved by closing the north and south centres. "That's part of the business case for the very rapid payback in the investment into a single downtown tourist information centre," says Sawatzky.
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