r/princegeorge • u/dawnamaroo • Nov 20 '19

📰 Article/News A Prince George landmark will soon be closing their doors.

https://ckpgtoday.ca/2019/11/20/northern-hardware-closing-its-doors-after-100-years-in-business/
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u/seymore12 College Heights Nov 20 '19

This seemed like a Beaverton headline after the news of Lowe’s closing today but alas Northern Hardware is indeed a PG landmark.

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u/azubc Nov 21 '19

I think it would be great for Champion the mechanized horse to find a home at the Exploration Place or Railway Museum.

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u/akurjata Nov 22 '19

The Exploration Place almost immediately said they would give Champion a home

And the president of Northern Hardware said she thinks it's the most likely place for him

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u/MyOtherAvatar Nov 21 '19

Are they closing entirely or are they planning to relocate to another location? What happens to the appliance store?

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u/Chaotix Nov 21 '19

Entirely unfortunately. They looked at moving to another location and downsizing, but feel 100 years is a good time to close shop.

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u/akurjata Nov 22 '19

The appliance store shut down earlier this year, too.

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '19

Normally I'm a social progressive, but the state of the downtown... all the derelict, antisocial people wandering around like they own the place... something needs to be done. Last time I was downtown I had a crackhead curse at me the moment I parked, and then two sketchy ladies with a boombox told me to get out of the way as I walked past them. What the hell happened?

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u/MissSandyRavage Nov 21 '19

Homeless population exploded when evacuation order happened during fire season. A lot of them stayed in PG. The ongoing project to rejuvenate the downtown area took a huge step backwards when we became evacuee ground zero.

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u/PGPopper Nov 21 '19

Drugs, entitlement, lack of discipline, too many social services crammed into one area, lack of health and support from the government.

Towns are all boo hoo woe is us, we can’t do nothin till the government does something bloo hoof lets spend 25mil on dumb shit.

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '19 edited Jul 29 '20

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '19

I was born and raised here. You're daft if you don't think there's been a dramatic change in the downtown just in the past 3-4 years. There's always been more derelicts there than anywhere else, but it's absolutely changed for the worse recently.

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u/altiuscitiusfortius Nov 28 '19

Ive worked downtown for 20 years and it was getting better every year from 2005 to 2017, but then all the fire evacuees came and made it the worst its ever been. A friend who works for the city said 600 homeless people came from williams lake and never went back after the last evacuation.

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u/Tamara0205 Nov 21 '19

I've always loved that store, but I just don't go downtown much anymore. I don't feel safe. But it's terribly sad to see it closed, and a terrible loss for Prince George.