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Keg's owner unhappy with expropriation

The Keg restaurant is not on the city’s potential expropriation chopping block, but it’s not happy with the current plans.

The Keg’s owner Kevin Person says that even though the end product might boost business, he’s not sure the restaurant can hang on until 2016.

“There will be no access to the parking lots, which we currently use. There’ll be total disruption of our facility while this is being built,” he said.

“I don’t know how this restaurant’s gonna survive over that long period of time.”

The restaurant uses the back parking lot to process deliveries and accomodate customer parking.

If the city decides to expropriate, it would also put the brakes on a planned 4500 square foot expansion to the restaurant.

Person also says he’s been put off by the lack of communication between the city and his ownership team.

“The communication with the municipality has been zero,” he said.

“They have never once made an attempt to contact us. Zero, absolutely no contact at all.”

Though he’s hoping for the expropriation to be put on hold, Person knows he might face the reality of the project being approved. If that’s the case, he says the first thing he wants is to have a big increase in communication.

“It’ll hopefully be that they get to know who I am,  that they would take the time to work with me like I will work with them,” he said.

“The biggest thing that we need to do is communicate and to make this process, if they do decide to expropriate, to work with the people that its affected.”

April 8, 2013