Wheelhouse Brewing Company seeks license amendment for CN Rail Station location on waterfront

Prince Rupert City Council will review comments, if any are received,
on April 11th, related to a Liquor Licence Application by the
Wheelhouse Brewing Co. for what will be their new home on the waterfront

There's no indication when they plan to move into the place, but when they do, the Wheelhouse Brewing Company is hoping to have an amended liquor licence to work with as they take up their new digs in the City of Prince Rupert owned facility.

In a Notice posted to the City of Prince Rupert website on Thursday (though an advisory not relayed through the city's Social media stream), the City outlines its receipt of  referral from the Liquor and Cannabis Licensing Branch regarding an application by Wheelhouse Brewing Company.

It notes that the details of the request as follows:

The amendment would enable the applicant have a lounge area endorsement license for their new location at the CN Rail Station at 380 Bill Murray Drive. 

The location will include indoor service areas including taproom, sunroom and a meeting room for a capacity of 140 and an outdoor patio with a capacity of 25, and licensed hours between 10 am—2 am.

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The full application for the amendment can be reviewed here.

Anyone wishing to make comment on the Application may do so by submitting written comments in writing to the Corporate Administrator on or before 4:00 pm Friday, March 31st.

There have been few civic updates in recent months on the status of the CN Station renovation project and Council members haven't seemingly felt any need to bring the topic up as part of their time in the public sessions since taking their seats in October of 2022.

However, with City Council set to consider the topic as part of their Council Agenda on April 11th, that does offer the opportunity for the public to speak to the ongoing work of the CN Station and ask any questions or offer up any comments that they may have towards the project and the plans by the City to host the brewery there.

The public comment period at the April 11th session will take place shortly after the session is called to order at 7PM

You can review some of the past history of the Waterfront renovation work from our archive page here.

More notes on past Council Discussion themes can be reviewed from our archive.

Cross posted from the North Coast Review.