State of the City: Marina District

The vision making portion of the State of the City Presentation  had the Mayor updating residents on a range of proposed developments for the community.

While Mayor Brain made note of the larger financial limitations that the City faces for all of its infrastructure as part of the event, something we reviewed as part of our Overview of the mayor's presentation.

The night also featured the vision making of the last few years from the Mayor, wth Mr. Brain updating residents as to the progress for many of those elements for what he calls incubation projects.

Mayor Brain's notes on on the area known as the Marina District once again reviewed much of the same themes as when it was introduced in 2019, with some additional notes of interest added since that time.

The next area of focus is the Marina District, which we've now branded the Marina District this is Cow Bay, where we have the existing CowBay, so the new Downtown  if you think about where City Hall is,

City Hall, well not even City Hall actually, I would say from like where the Totem Theatre is down towards Cow Bay and the Marina District its going to be the new central downtown.

So Cow Bay, Marina District and the new Gateway area will be kind of where we want retail to be and we want to focus business into those locations "

What that area will look like and how the city held land along George Hills Way will be used for made for the next segment of the Marina District overview.

"You may have noticed that Third Avenue we've been working behind RONA on Lot 9, and if you've been along George Hills Way you've been seeing the clearing there. 

We're opening up that space now, taking out what's there, we're starting to work with some developers  and we want to work with mixed commercial and residential. 

Prince Rupert Legacy owns all of Lot Nine which goes from Cow Bay all the way down to George Hills Way where the Coastal Propane is. 

Massive potential for housing there, you can actually build  eight stories there there's no height issues, there's no houses that block view and that's a very, very big opportunity for waterfront development and extending Cow Bay.

You know we're looking at building behind Cow Bay in that little slough there, some like boardwalk areas, boardwalks on the waterfront. 

This is the Pattison project, Pattison project they are engaged with this area, looking to do some investments in this community now too that way. 

And so this is another huge opportunity for this community for revitalization."  

The fate of the Bridge into the Cow Bay area also was of some focus for the Mayor.

"That Bridge that is down in Cow Bay needs to basically get closed down. 

It's not, the load, it can't carry heavy loads and its an old wooden trestle bridge, so why we need to do that extension is basically to create that as a pedestrian bridge, and make that the new access behind RONA there.

And that's where we're also looking to expand the parking for Cow Bay as well. So for those who are frustrated with Cow Bay parking we're  looking to do a parking lot down there.

So, Marina District  is moving forward,  we've got lot's of interest down there it's going to be  a much more easier area to develop and that's a very exciting opportunity as part of our 2030 plan"

The Marina District portion of the presentation can be viewed from the City's Video replay of the Sate of the City Presentation.

The review of the state of the Marina District update starts at the  one hour, four minute mark

Some of our past items of note to the theme have been included as part of our Vision Tracker archive, as well as our Council Discusison archive

With the Vision themes coming out of the 2030 Vision plan, you can go back and review notes from that presentation from 2019 here.

Our Full overview of the State of the City Presentation can be reviewed here.

We also have created an archive of the elements from it, that compilation is available here.

( some of the above images come from screenshots of the video presentation)