The Goldstream Gazette is reporting that the “Langford bowling centre [has been] pared back to fit budget.”
New estimates of the design apparently concluded it could not be done for the originally anticipated cost. The number of bowling lanes has been scaled back, and a planned restaurant scuttled entirely. The original plan had federal stimulus money being pared with money Langford had collected, and about $4 million more that the City would borrow. The intention was that the operator of the bowling alley and restaurant would pay the loan. Negotiations continue on whether that can now be accomplished on the scaled-back design. The original operator, a Surrey-based company, has also apparently had unrelated financial troubles recently.
Meanwhile, the Times Colonist is reporting that Bear Mountain now officially ‘on the map’.
