The Vancouver 2010 Bid Corporation has opened a new information centre in downtown Vancouver that will house displays and the latest plans for Vancouver’s 2010 Winter Olympic Bid and Paralympic Games.
Jack Poole, chair and chief executive officer of the Vancouver 2010 Bid Corporation said, “we invite people to visit this new centre to learn more and share ideas about Canada’s plans to win the right to host the 2010 Olympic Winter Games and Winter Paralympic Games”.
The centre will be open seven days a week from 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. There were about 60 visitors on Tuesday, the first day the centre was open.
The bid has also attracted two new corporate supporters – the Cadillac Fairview Corporation Limited, instrumental in helping to create the new Bid information centre and the Jim Pattison Group. Cadillac is also providing cash and advertising space in shopping centres for the bid, a value of $175,000.
The Pattison Group will provide the Bid Corporation with cash and in-kind media services valued at $500,000 to help create more awareness about the bid.
Meanwhile, its been reported that the B.C. government has identified the Sea to Sky Highway as one of two transportation projects that are prime targets for public-private partnerships.
B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell said it doesn’t necessarily mean the highway that links Vancouver to Whistler and is called the “Achilles Heel” of Vancouver’s bid, could become a toll road, but he said he won’t rule it out either.
According to documents the B.C. government plans to have a decision made on the Sea to Sky highway project by the end of the year.
