After securing more than $200 million dollars in Federal and Provincial funding, Prince Rupert is set to embark on the largest single infrastructure investment since its inception more than 100 years ago.
$200 million may sound like a lot, but it will only cover about a third of the infrastructure gap the city will need to fill over the next decade. Over $450 million is still needed to complete a major overhaul of critical infrastructure in the small port city of 12,000 people.
“It will be very disruptive work over the next three years,” said Mayor Herb Pond. “But it’s setting us up for the decades to come.”
Rupert has been steadily growing over the past decade, both in population and economic growth. With the most recent port expansion a few years back, the Port of Prince Rupert is now the fastest growing port in the country and the third largest in terms of shipping volume, next to Vancouver and Montreal.
