The Gitmaxmak’ay Nisga’a Society will now have a lawn and garden business in Prince Rupert after purchasing the land and greenhouses of the old Azalea Gardens site.
The business will be called Rupert Lawn Garden and Gitmaxmak’ay Nisga’a Society president Greg Grayson says not only will it be operated as a gardening store but will also be reformed into a landscaping business.
Grayson says Seal Cove residents will see a lot more construction in the area over the winter and he hopes to have the doors open to the public by spring.
“We’re going to continue the same type of business…growing flowers, having trees… Further more we are going to be looking at food and other types if landscaping business because it has existing landscaping and lawn cutting. What we wanted to do is we are a society and we provide programs and services to the membership and there’s never enough funds. We wanted to basically become self sufficient and start creating profit centres to plow the money back into our people.”
Grayson says the business will be apart of the Gitmaxmak’ay Nisga’a Economic Development Corporation and will hopefully be apart of many purchases to help fund the society.
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