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Listing #:

09304

Price:

$550,000

Zoning:

R – 2
Includes: 
Single family dwellings 
Two family dwellings 
Multiple family dwellings
The Village of Port Alice is open to re-zoning that will allow a motel/hotel situation.

Improvements:

Three bedroom 1440 sq.ft. manufactured home in very good condition, there is a large deck overlooking Neroutsos Inlet. There is a good sized double garage or shop along with a second mobile home pad (the mobile on this pad does not go with the sale, however the owner may sell it or stay and pay pad rent).

Investment Features:

This property has many development avenues open for the buyer or buyers with a bit of vision.

Description:

A terraced waterfront property (former log dump and boat marina) within the Municipality of Port Alice. There is a flat level terrace along a good portion of the waterfront where a multi-family or tourist development is quite feasible. The Village of Port Alice is quite open to a zoning change that may include a motel/hotel situation.
There was a marina (for the benefit of Western Forest Products employees) in front of the property in the past and could quite possibly be put in service again. There is a three bedroom manufactured home on foundation along with a good double car garage/shop, along with a second mobile home pad (the single wide on this site is owned by the tenant).
There is municipal water and sewer to the site, however at this time a septic system is in place for the residences.

Location:

Within the Municipality of Port Alice (www.portalice.ca).

Access:

North on the Island Highway (Hwy 19) to Highway 30 (app. 15km north of Port McNeill) turn left and head for Port Alice (app. 28km).

Services:

Sanitary sewer, water, hydro, cable and good paved roads.

Area Data:

The small community of Port Alice is located on beautiful Neroutsos Inlet, one of Vancouver Island's gateways to the wild and wonderful west coast. Port Alice is an attractive, well-planned village named after Alice Whalen, whose family operated three local pulp mills in the 1920's. In 1965, Port Alice became B.C.'s first instant municipality. The new townsite was built to replace the original company town 4 km up the inlet.
Port Alice bears a remarkable resemblance to Port Annie, the fictional town described by Vancouver Island author Jack Hodgins in his novel "The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne."
The village has a shopping area, a hotel, RV campsite, liquor store, hospital, library, excellent restaurants, fuel facility, boat launch and yacht club. There is a fully-equipped recreational complex with weight room, hockey rink and curling ice.

Recreation:

Fishing both salt and freshwater is of course a mainstay for residents and visitors alike.
Port Alice is also a gateway to the West Coast of Vancouver Island. With a boat or kayak, normally inaccessible regions, such as Brooks Peninsula, can be accessed.
This is a vast, windswept sea-sprayed section of Vancouver Island's northwest coast. The snout of Brooks Peninsula offers some protection from the winter storms that blow south from the Gulf of Alaska. Sea kayakers should beware the fury of the winds and surf that build around its protruding bulk.
The rewards of making the journey are the solitude provided by the surroundings and the sight of magnificent stands of Sitka spruce, the only species of tree able to thrive under constant salt-and-magnesium-loaded spindrift that the winds whip from the tops of the swells and carry ashore in the breeze.
In the sheltering forest, marbled murrelets nest in the deep moss that enshrouds the thick branches of the spruce. Herds of Roosevelt elk graze in the lush, green understorey, while black bears forage in the berry-laden bushes. If you are among the few visitors who make their way here each year, you will be treated to one of the last remaining environments on the west coast where logging has been held mercifully at bay.
Brooks Peninsula Provincial Park is huge, 127,528 acres of wilderness that is best explored with the help of a guide.
Golf: The 9-hole public golf course at Port Alice Golf & Country Club offers a good challenge by virtue of its setting on the side of a mountain, with narrow, tree-lined fairways and small greens. Before you tee off on hole number three, remember to climb the tower to see if the green is clear.
Marble River Provincial Park and recreation area offers great outdoor activities, with hiking trails leading down to the Marble River rapids. Marble River is known as one of the island's best steelhead fishing rivers.
It's advisable to get good logging road maps for the area as there are numerous points of interest accessible by road, including Devil's Bath and the fascinating Eternal Fountain, both part of the Quatsino karst formation.
Take a tour of the salmon hatchery at Marble River.
Harvy Cove, Gooding Cove, Side Bay, Le Mare Lake and O'Connell Lake are good places to head once you've packed the picnic hamper full of goodies.