By Dylana Milobar

KCBIA hopes free downtown parking will draw visitors

Nov 4, 2018 | 12:58 PM

KAMLOOPS — The City of Kamloops is again offering free on-street parking downtown every weekend through November and December, and the KCBIA is hoping it’ll bring extra shoppers to the area.

Kamloops Central Business Improvement Association President Dino Bernardo, says the zero-cost parking will be a strong incentive to bring more people to the city centre.

“We think its great,” Bernardo says, “Anything that we can do to attract people to the downtown core to shop at all of our wonderful shops, and partake in our wonderful restaurants and services.”

The offer expands on the always free Sunday parking for the area, adding Saturdays to the list until December 30. The city’s regular 3 hour time limit will also be enforced.

Free parking during holiday time isn’t exactly a new plan, as Bernardo says they had mentioned it to the city previously.

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“It’s part of our ongoing Christmas campaign to try and liven up downtown,” He explains, “We have the Santa Claus parade, we’ll have the winter carnival and the winter festival, and all the different activities that we’ll have downtown.”

With patio season weather long gone, the Association is preparing for their annual push to keep people flowing through the downtown shopping area. 

“We’re going to start seeing a renaissance in our downtown and I think its going to be great,” Bernardo says, “I think that the people of Kamloops are going to really appreciate the work that Carl (DeSantis) and his staff are doing, and hopefully the businesses are going to step up, and we’re going to have the ability for people to come down and make downtown Kamloops fun again.”