COLLINS: North Shore BIA working hard to develop a ‘happening place’
IT’S TAKEN SOME TIME AND LOTS OF HARD WORK, but the North Shore Business Improvement Association is slowly changing the face of the Tranquille Corridor. There is still a long way to go, but new additions like the Yew Street Food Hall and other specialty restaurants provide a destination for shoppers to visit and enjoy.
The North Shore has been a tough sell for a long time and it’s only the past few years that a more consistent level of quality has developed.
When I first came to Kamloops, I lived in what is now known as the Kamloops Tranquille Apartments, at the opposite end of Yew Street to the current Food Hall. North Kamloops wasn’t a bad place to be. Lots of neat stores, a corner grocery store, a print shop, a tailor, the post office and a music store. A doctor, a pizza bar, a nightclub — just about everything you needed, including the infamous Village Hotel.
As the years went by, the character of the area changed several times, but lately, it has started to take shape. Lots of new housing, no more Village, better planning, some cool restaurants and cafes — and hope for the future.
