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By ED MILLS Staff Writer

Call out the welcome wagon, the Castlegar Industrial Park is about to get a pair of new residen- ts.

Welders and West Kootenay Carpets are the latest businesses who will call the park home.

They join perhaps the park's highest profile establishment, United Buy and Sell Furniture Warehouse, which opened July 29, as the new kids on the block in the park.

OK Welders’ building at the northern end of the park is almost complete, a few weeks aliead of a scheduled late September deadline.

The company also has outlets in

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“They are already doing a lot of business here,’’ said Russell Moore, ‘who is the foreman for Penticton contractor Greyback Construction which is construc- ting the $250,000 building. “They're over here, oh, three times a week or so with their vans, so they're more or less following their business here.’*

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West Kootenay Carpets, which is currently located in Castlegar, is set to move into its new 8,000- square-foot building in early Oc- tober from its present location on 6th Avenue.

The store’s owner-manager said his business is growing and he’s been looking to move into the

Cor ion on the ding down at the northernmost end of the Castlegar Industrial Park. The $250,000 building will be ready to be occupied by the middle of September, a few weeks ahead of schedule. — cosnews photo

Park gets two new residents

park for a couple of years but this seemed the best time for several reasons.

“I like the location there, it’s right on the highway and that’s good exposure. And with United Buy and Sell there it’s just a bonus. With them there we'll help them out and they’ll help us out,”” Brian Millar said.

Millar wouldn’t say how much he paid the City of Castlegar for the lot but did say the building will cost him about $300,000.

Richard Maddocks, economic development officer for ~the Castlegar and District Economic Development Board, sajd the lots sell for about $20,000, but that price fluctuates with the market.

Even with the two new residents

bringing the total number of businesses in the park to seven, there is still plenty of room in the 26-lot park, most of which is owned by the city.

But contractors working in the park say the latest development could just be the start.

**Let's face it, the more you get. here, the more that are going to come here,’’ said John Brooks of Skyline Construction of Genelle.

Brooks, along with Sal Developments of Castlegar, built the Purnel Distributors building in the park and is currently working on the West Kootenay Carpets building. The two are also constructing a mini-storage facility on the perimeter of the park.

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The Small Business Barometer, released by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, indicates business confidence has slipped to its

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The survey, which canvassed 1,851 small- and medium-sized firms across Canada, found the business confiden- ce index has slipped from its base level of 100 two years ago to 61 in June.

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Catherine Swift, the federation’s chief economist, said pessimism in the business community is the result of ‘‘a whole bunch of things hitting at the same time... .’"

She said three concerns stand out: lower sales expectations, the Bank of Canada’s high interest rate policy and the impact of the GST.

While the federal government should not be blamed entirely for the economic slowdown, its monetary and fiscal policies are making it wor- se, she said.

Crestbrook to invest $30m in sawmills

Crestbrook Forest Products Ltd. said it will invest $30 million in its sawmill operations at Canal Flats, Cranbrook and Elko.

The company said it is making the investment in an effort to maintain economically viable operations at the three lumber divisions. The invest- ment program will include the in- Stallation of the best available technology in most machine centres in the sawmills to permit them to cope with the high cost and type of wood currently available, the company said in a news release.

The program will start immediately and be completed by December 1991.

Crestbrook has to deal with high- cost wood of low quality and small size. This situation is combined with a major contraction of the wood supply

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as a result of the salvage programs associated with the forest fires of 1985 and a mountain pine beetle in- festation. In making this investment, Cc said it is also izii the shrinking commercial forest land base due to demand for forest land to be set aside as wilderness, parks and other uses which exclude logging.

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Business leader, Grit clash over goods and services tax

OTTAWA (CP) — The vast majority of Canadians oppose the goods and services tax mainly because they don’t ‘understand it, a leading big-business group said.

Most people don’t realize the seven per cent. tax, scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, would replace the existing federal sales tax on manufactured goods, said Tom d’ Aquino, president of the Business Council on National Issues.

“The polls continue to show something devastatingly disturbing and that is that the vast majority of Canadians . . . do not understand that this is a replacement tax,’’ d‘Aquino told the Senate banking committee.

“One of the sad commentaries about what is going on in this country is that we are debating, making decisions . . . on the basis of largely misinformed or people who do not understand the issues,’’ he added.

But Sidney Buckwold, Liberal chairman of the committee, accused big business of trying to tell people what to think about the tax.

The business council represents 150 of the largest companies in Canada, which employ about 1.5 million and administer more than $975 billion in assets.

Developers high on

BANFF, Alta. (CP) — From the pristine waters of Lake Louise to the rolling glaciers of Jasper National Park, ‘developers are investing millions of dollars to upgrade and ex- pand resort properties.

They are confident the investment will be more than repaid.

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TOM D'AQUINO . »- Canadians ‘misinformed’

‘*What bothers me most is that you downgrade the great majority of Canadians who you say are misin- formed, as if 150 executives of your organization are the people who know everything,’’ Buckwold told d‘Aquino.

“The fact is that is not necessarily the case and I am not prepared to ac- cept that the great majority of Canadians are misinformed on this

Petrak won’t talk about it, but there have been reports CP Hotels and Marriott Hotels have filed letters of intent to build a 400-room facility in partnership with Calgary-based Three Sister Resorts, which plans to build three 18-hold golf courses and a hoiel and housing projects outside the

Canadian Pacific Hotets and Resorts, with major expansions and facelifts at its mountain properties — the Banff Springs Hotel, Chateau Lake Louise and the newly acquired Jasper Park Lodge.

“There is practically no bottom’’ to the Rocky Mountain market, said Ivor Petrak, the chain’s Banff-based senior vice-president for resort development. n

“There are more and more pegp! reching the age where they want to see the whole world, and one of the things they want to see is the Canadian Rockies. So they just keep coming.”*

The tourist industry in the rest of the country is suffering from one of its poorest summers in years. But CP Hotels is building palatial convention centres to boost off-season traffic and sprucing up buildings with wood and stone work to match the properties’ original grandeur.

““If we take care of this properly we will have a market 1,000 years from now, even more so than today, just like the castles of Europe,’’ Petrak said.

of Banff National Park near Canmore, adjacent to the Trans- * Canada Highway.

Another Calgary developer is negotiating with both the Hyatt and Westin chains to build a 400- to 500- room hotel in the Benchlands area, north of the Trans-Canada Highway within Canmore town limits.

In Banff, a 470-room, $50-million hotel by developer Gary Charlton was approved by the town council in June.

CP Hotels hopes the new conven- tion facilities will attract visitors during the traditionally sluggish non- summer months.

“We are still limping from October

question,’’ the comiilttee chairman added.

The business council concluded in its brief that few legislative proposals have been the subject of ‘‘more misin- formed and unfounded criticism than the GST.

“This is regrettable, since the GST promises to deliver many important benefits to Canada over the medium and long terms,"’ the council's brief argued.

D’Aquino denied he was putting down Canadians for failing to under- stand benefits of the GST.

“There have been many issues in this country in which Canadians, not through their fault, have-not been properly informed,”’ he said.

Statistics Canada, the gover- nment’s chief scorekeeper on what happens in the economy, said it can only measure what impact’ the GST would have on consumers’ pockets af- ter the tax is introduced.

The federal government already takes $6.60 out of every $100 con- sumers spend through indirect taxes, Statistics Canada said in its brief to the Senate committee.

The federal’ agency made the calculation based on its consumer price index, which monitors more

than 100 goods and services bought regularly, such as bread, milk, gasoline and bus tickets.

The existing federal sales tax, to be replaced by the GST, accounts for $3.52 of the $6.60 collected by the federal government.

In total, Canadians pay $18.52 out of every $100 through indirect taxes charged by federal, provincial and municipal governments.

The-federal governmient has predic- ted that the GST would boost the consumer price index, one of the most common measures of inflation, by 1.25 percentage points.

But that prediction is based on the government assumptions and Statistics Canada cannot make such an estimate, said Ivan Fellegi, the federal agency’s chief statistician.

“We do not, nor can we, answer the question that is on everyone's mind — what would the price have been if’ the tax is introduced, he said.

In making its prediction, the federal government has assumed that companies will pass on to consumers 100 per cent of savings from replacing the existing federal sales tax.

And it assumed workers would receive no wage increases to compen- sate for rising prices.

mountain resorts

“These people who travel on buses

to May,’’ Petrak said. ‘If we can break even for the winter weil Be) don’t harm the environment. They

laughing all the way to the bank.””

The convention centre in Banff will be big enough for the most lucrative resort conventions that only a handful of other properties in North America are capable of handling, he said.

Banff resident Mike Mclvor, a

for an i group called the Bow Valley Naturalists, said development doesn’t come without a price. He points to last summer’s sewage spill in the Bow River as a warning of the devastating effects of too much building.

Petrak brushes off the concerns, saying environmentalists are misrepresenting the facts and that the parks were created for the enjoyment of people.

Park visitors hardly ever step more than a few feet away from their bus, Petrak said.

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