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Originally Posted by MonctonRad
They were interviewing John Wishart, CEO of the Greater Moncton Chamber of Commerce on CBC Radio this morning.
Wishart mentioned there would likely be development near the corner of King & Main this year, echoing a similar comment made by Greg Turner last week. One wonders if this has to do with the Harper Building proposal.
Wishart also stated that Ashford will be proceeding with a project at the former Cosmopolitan site downtown this year as well. He said he was not privy to exact plans, but expected a mixed use development of some kind.
Two other notes:
- The building containing Navigator's Pub has been sold to a PEI company.
- The building containing the downtown location of the Blue Olive is for sale. There are some rumours out there that this location of the Blue Olive is in difficulty and might potentially close.
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The person who bought Nav's is the owner of 2nd floor nightclub.
The 2 businesses are being combined and the owner already posted on facebook that cover charge will be 10$ to get in on weekends. Within about 1 hour there were roughly 60 negative replies seeing as Nav's has always been a place without cover. The owner deleted all of the negative feedback and reposted. He's basically sacrificing customers in his pub to benefit the club. I'll be honest..I don't have much positive to say about this one. The late night bar business in Moncton has always struggled to attract quality ownership. Probably due to it being even riskier than places who offer food.
The furnace room is about to get even busier.
This whole combined bar/nightclub/pub has been tried and failed so many times in 20 years its amazing how many more owners will try it again. You'd think they'd look at the places in Moncton that are busy nightly and take some advice. Tire Shack, Cavok, 3rd glass, Pumphouse, Furnace Room, Old Triangle and even Chris Rock. They focus on doing 1 or 2 things well to bring out certain customers vs trying to throw everything at the wall hoping it works.
The crowd that is willing to go out on weekends now wants unique experiences and they are more than willing to pay for it.