BC Government funding announcement brings an addtional 700K to Waterfront project in Prince Rupert

North Coast MLA Jennifer Rice shared some news on Monday on funding for the proposed shift of the Digby Island Ferry dock from Fairview Bay to a more central location near the city centre. 

All part of an ambitious  redevelopment plan for the Kwinitsa Station area of the Prince Rupert Waterfront which will also see the creation of a new marina for the community..

As part of some tourism related funding, Ms. Rice relayed the government's plans through her Social Media feed locally noting of 700 thousand dollars in funding towards the project first announced back in 2019 as part of the Prince Rupert 2030 vision plan reveal.

In an email to the North Coast Review, Ms. Rice confirmed that this is additional funding, to go with the one million dollars toward the project announced in February.

"The earlier grant for the Rural Economic Recovery stream of the Community Economic Recovery Infrastructure Program comes from FLNRO while yesterday’s announcement is the Tourism Dependent Communities Initiative from Tourism." -- North Coast MLA Jennifer Rice

Yesterday's update, brings the total provincial investment to date into the project to 1.7 million dollars.

The  full release of all the tourism related funding, including funding for the Perimeter Trail reconstruction and highway pedestrian crossing in Smithers, can be examined here.

The proposed Rupert's Landing (until a name change is decided upon) development will also see a renovation of the old CN Rail station as a project separate from the Marina/Ferry Dock work, the latter of which is to take place in partnership with the Gitxaala First Nation.

The project is just one of a number of proposals from the Vision 2030 session of a few years ago, we've tracked the progress of some of those now underway here.

More notes from the MLA's work at the Legislature can be reviewed from our archive.

Cross posted from the North Coast Review.