Wasaga Beach puts plan for Main Street Market in motion
By Ian Adams Wasaga Sun
The foundation has been set to create a Main Street Market on the beachfront this summer.
At council’s Jan. 19 committee of the whole meeting, committee accepted a series of recommendations to hire an architect and contractor to build market kiosks, as well as a beachfront pub that will be the home to Wasaga Beach Brewing Company.
The market would be set up in the existing pedestrian mall at the east end of the main beach area.
However, not all the recommendations were unanimous, as Deputy Mayor Nina Bifolchi and Coun. Sylvia Bray – who have raised concerns at various points in the process – continued to challenge the concept based on sole-sourcing the pub to one business, as well as the revenue and expense projections put forward by the town’s director of economic development and tourism, Andrew McNeill.
Bray, who raised a similar concern at the committee’s December meeting, told McNeill “the math doesn’t work” when she reviewed the revenue and expense expectations.
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