Dear Editor
Your Feb. 11 edition highlighted some shortcomings in the city-owned Anvil Centre.
I understand taxpayers are looking at $100,000 because someone didn’t plan for a dimmer switch and a ton of money because it’s difficult to lease out a restaurant with no kitchen. Total budget for Anvil Centre: about a million dollars, for a brand new building, yet!
I got so annoyed after reading this, I took a run down to Pier Park. I saw the elevator that doesn’t work and the concession area that is said to have a full kitchen installed but is rarely, if ever, open. These two items, I’m told, are also being subsidized by the taxpayers.
Now our city council wants to build a bridge with two elevators and a very high span in a windy area? Can you understand my skepticism regarding the success of this project?
As my father used to say: “Do not start vast projects with half vast ideas.”
Chris Dumfries, New Westminster
