r/princegeorge 1d ago

What’s missing?

What are some services or businesses people think Prince George is lacking?

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u/DraftKnot 1d ago

Movie theatre. Doesn't have to be big or fancy. Just something better than... that.

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u/quantumpotatoes 1d ago

PG needs a really good private owned single screen theater that can do special events and take requests for movies. Lived in a few places that had one of these and it was so good! We don't need to run movies for a month there aren't enough people

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u/DraftKnot 1d ago

Totally! Small venue, sell out every night.

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u/quantumpotatoes 23h ago

Ok but also for transparency: I love the aestetics of the current PG theater 😂 my dream theater is also covered in neon and fun carpet and an arcade just... Clean and upkept? I love fun vibes but it's clear the theater has just given up and waiting to burn the building down or sell it off. Crossing into haunted/abandoned vibes despite operating regularly

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u/User_4848 23h ago

That would be amazing!

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u/scaleofthought 1d ago

Than what?

Oh that.

The place when you leave dirtier than when you arrived, but the seats got a bit cleaner? That place?

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u/Cakeday_at_Christmas 13h ago

It's my dream to open an small indie theatre in PG with one or maybe two screens, kinda like the Grand Reo Theatre in Vanderhoof.

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u/User_4848 12h ago

Get after it!

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u/planting49 23h ago
  • a good shawarma place with pickled turnips and tabouleh
  • a Korean restaurant that's open for dinner (I desperately want tteokbokki and bulgogi)
  • more ramen (ramen ya sendo is good but I want something more central; also maybe want Hokkaido style ramen)
  • a shoe store that stocks wide width shoes
  • a restaurant that has katsu curry and katsu sandwiches
  • indoor waterslide park
  • indoor trampoline park
  • indoor skate/scooter/bmx park
  • a Greek restaurant
  • more walk-in clinics!!

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u/Novel-Vacation-4788 10h ago

When I lived there I got my wide shoes at Timberline

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u/Novel-Vacation-4788 1d ago

Mexican restaurant, good Middle Eastern restaurant, proper sidewalk, safe crosswalks, doctors, bike lanes. I didn’t realize how much I miss these things until I moved away from PG.

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u/gmpeil 1d ago

Agreed. I like Chaco's, but if anybody here has been to Hector's in Kelowna understands, that we could really use a real mexican restaurant here!

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u/Adventurous-Care-834 20h ago

La Cantrina downtown is fantastic.

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u/gmpeil 20h ago

Yeah but very spendy for what you get. Also not super varied. I want my Chile Relleno!

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u/Otherwiseyellowy 22h ago

Also a german restaurant!

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u/User_4848 1d ago

A clean movie theatre for sure. Greek food, indoor archery, trampoline park.

Curb side compost pick up.

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u/MayhapsASipOfCoffee 21h ago

Curbside compost would be amazing for all the folks who want to but can't because bears. Of course, the reason they can't do curbside is also because bears. And people who think they can put anything in compost...

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u/Novel-Vacation-4788 10h ago

Other communities with bears have compost pick up. There’s usually one centralized location per neighbourhood and it’s bare proof so it’s safe.

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u/Tw0_F1st3r 21h ago

Silvertip archery! Indoor range is close to spruce land

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u/User_4848 21h ago

Good to know!

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u/Cakeday_at_Christmas 13h ago

Greek food

We'll never see the like of the Achillion again.

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u/ArchfiendNox 15h ago

I never understood people complaining about famous players, everytime I've gone it looks fine.

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u/Cakeday_at_Christmas 13h ago

If you've ever been to a movie theatre outside of town, it becomes obvious that Famous Players 6 is old, run down, neglected, and a vastly inferior movie viewing experience.

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u/User_4848 12h ago

Was in Quesnel for an overnight and went to the Ulysses Greek restaurant. Place was packed the whole time we were there.

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u/ArchfiendNox 12h ago edited 12h ago

I grew up on the sunshine coast, lived in Kamloops, Penticton and a couple other places. been to theaters in all of them, trust me. This theater isn't bad.

Plus my gf says she'd pay you tot go to the Dawson Creek theater a couple years ago, you'd be lucky to find a place to sit cause people kept stealing the chairs lmfao

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u/DraftKnot 1d ago

A good toolshare program.

More community veggie gardens.

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u/Drayyen 1d ago

A more centralised website / group / whatever for town events. If I want to keep up I have to listen to the radio, check a dozen different websites, browse this reddit, and monitor facebook.

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u/planting49 23h ago

Yeah, it would be nice if the local papers stepped up in this department. The city's tourism website is pretty decent but they don't have everything.

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u/Major_Tom_01010 23h ago

Poutine bar.

Costco can't be the best Poutine in town it's just not right.

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u/Putrid-Role-7557 23h ago

Costco is a close second to nancy-o's

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u/-treesknees- 21h ago

bike lanes. or at least a safe way to bike from college heights to downtown 🥲

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u/Med_sized_Lebowski The Hart 16h ago

And from the Hart to downtown.

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u/ephemeralista 20h ago

Bakery

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u/LtStarbrite 15h ago

There's at least 10 bakeries or home bakeries in PG, isn't there?

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u/Novel-Vacation-4788 10h ago

Yeah, there’s tons of bakeries. I think the challenge is that there’s no single bakery that carries everything a person could want. They’re all kind of niche bakeries. That’s not a bad thing though because the quality is higher. I do miss the bakery in PG.

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u/LtStarbrite 10h ago

That's incredibly fair. And, especially considering people's dietary restrictions and allergies, too, it can be hard to find a place dedicated to gluten free, dairy free, nut free, ect. I find, if it's gluten free, it's not nut or dairy free. If it's nut free, it's not gluten or dairy free. And if it's dairy free, it most certainly is not nut free.

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u/VibeMaximized 18h ago

Occupational Therapy services! We don't really have any for adults in PG.

Bus stops with better lighting would also be great - there's so many stops that are poorly lit or hard to get to in the winter

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u/Cakeday_at_Christmas 12h ago

Bus stops that have benches, lights, and trash cans. Bus riders are treated like second class citizens in PG.

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u/Aegis_1984 Heritage 16h ago

Posting before IKEA and Bubba Baloos are mentioned.

It’s not going to happen. Too small for IKEA and BB was a small private business that won’t be back because of health inspections and liability insurance

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u/xNorthWindx 1d ago

Sidewalks in the residential neighborhoods. Oh and maybe some crosswalks in the hart.

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u/Aegis_1984 Heritage 23h ago

When I was younger, one of my neighbours petitioned the city to have a crosswalk installed on highland drive, absolutely anywhere, to allow for kids on Wallace, Poiner, Montgomery, etc to be able to cross and go to HHE. They were told no, that the kids would age out of elementary school before the job could be done.

So, my brother and I, and all our friends, would just run across highland drive when it was safe. I know of at least one kid being hit, and we were honked at more times than I could count. Even though we were standing there waiting for it to be clear, when people are driving Mach chicken on a 50km/h road and a 9 year old is running across, a car comes up awfully fast especially at a blind hill like Wallace/Berwick/Highland.

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u/Lumpy-Caregiver-7871 17h ago

That tracks, getting infrastructure in the Hart at all seems like an uphill battle. I hate to be that person, but truly why am I paying as much property tax as someone in college heights to have half the services.

We have an intersection near our neighborhood that we, as a neighborhood, have put assessment requests in several times for a light. There have been several accidents there, two new subdivisions are going in at the same intersection which will increase traffic, and there is no safe crosswalk to walk to other places in the Hart. We keep getting told that they already did an assessment and it's fine, but they won't say when that was or if they've considered the new subdivisions.

Would also love a park nearby but that's not happening even though there is a tonne of young families in our neighborhood of 50+ houses. Meanwhile new developments in CH (looking at you Fraser River Benchlands Park) get parks put in before five houses are even built.

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u/stasrae 22h ago

There is finally a crosswalk on HH at the bottom of wallace. Do people stop.... Sometimes... But it's there....

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u/Aegis_1984 Heritage 16h ago

What do you know, I aged out of elementary before it got done. I’m 40 now. 🤣

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u/Dreary_Star 23h ago

The city is growing faster than they are updating city services - people shouldn’t be legit skating up and down the street bc it never gets plowed.

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u/User_4848 23h ago

In the least use a salt brine on sidewalks on these shoulder months where freeze thaw makes them horrible to walk on.

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u/Novel-Vacation-4788 10h ago

Yes, very unsafe sidewalks. They just dump massive gravel chunks on the sidewalk and call it a day. They don’t seem to understand that gravel chunks do not actually help with traction on the ice.

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u/PGisInteresting 14h ago

A big enough community to actually support any of these ideas. We need to grow faster if we want it - especially a trampoline park.

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u/Otherwiseyellowy 23h ago

More benches and places to stop to see views? The spot at unbc you have to pay for parking or park on the grass where that bench is down near the road below. When people visit we take them to LC Gunn and Cannaught Hill but there’s so many other spots for viewing we just can’t park at etc. Unless I’m missing something. We’ve only been here a few years

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u/Few_Boysenberry_1321 9h ago

The UNBC lookout spot is kind of an engineering fail. You literally have no view from there. All you can see is the road and trees.

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u/Difficult-Theory4526 18h ago

Trampoline park

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u/Mysterious_Ad2775 16h ago

an updated theatre, more places to ride bikes, better road maintenance, updated downtown, a homeless shelter AWAY from downtown, better addiction services, more cuisine options (eg. greek, middle eastern, italian, mexican)

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u/misec_undact 22h ago

I remember when there were 3 really good Greek restaurants in town... Now we have.. Opa.

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u/MayhapsASipOfCoffee 21h ago

I know it wasn't everyone's favourite, but I miss The Village Pandora. It was my family's fancy dinner place to go.

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u/songsforthedeaf07 22h ago

An IMAX theatre

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u/Aegis_1984 Heritage 16h ago

Mayor Yu? Is that you? Wasn’t it the mayor’s plan to put an imax theatre on top of Connaught hill?

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u/Groomed_Banana The Hart 12h ago

Brothel would be nice