New chamber building envisioned for Castlegar

Fundraising is underway to make the new Chamber office and visitor centre a reality in Castlegar.

An artist's rendition of the new ultra-modern Castlegar Chamber of Commerce and Visitor's Centre building. — Photo: Castlegar Chamber

Things are buzzing at the Castlegar Chamber of Commerce lately with talk of a new Chamber building being one of the projects under consideration.

Chamber Manager, Tammy Verigin-Burk recently gave Kootenay Business a list of the top three stated reasons that people enjoy doing business in Castlegar: clientele, location on or near Highway 3 and affordability of doing business, including overhead and taxes. The biggest challenge, as revealed by the business community, is the shortage of skilled labour.

The Castlegar Chamber of Commerce is also talking about building a new, modern chamber office to call home in the future.  Fundraising and planning is underway.

During 2017, Verigin-Burk says she will continue to work to secure funding for construction of a new, larger office to house the chamber, visitor centre, Destination Castlegar and the economic development office. Once the final funding is in place, a date will be set to break ground.