Lena Sin, Vancouver Province– January 26, 2005
It made international headlines in September — a pristine northern B.C. town for sale: Kitsault, yours for $7 million.
It was the kind of advertising money couldn’t buy — and it worked.
The headline caught the eye of U.S.-based property developer Krishnan Suthanthiran, who was in Halifax when he heard the ghost town was for sale, complete with an Olympic-sized swimming pool,
Radio-Canada- Jan 25, 2005
Le village de Kitsault, situé dans le nord de la Colombie-Britannique, appartient depuis la fin de décembre à une entreprise dirigée par des investisseurs de Virginie.
Le village, qui abrite 92 maisons et 7 édifices de logements, longe la mer sur 2 kilomètres au nord de Prince Rupert. Il a été abandonné en 1982, quand la mine de molybdène de la société Climax a fermé ses portes.
l’express.mu – January 25, 2005
An abandoned, but well-maintained, British Columbia mining town, complete with library, pub and hospital, has been sold to an unidentified Virginia property developer who must now decide what he wants to do with it.
The buyer paid less than C$7 million (3.03 million pounds) for Kitsault, located on a fjord near the Alaska Panhandle about 800 km northwest of Vancouver, the town’s marketing agent said on Tuesday.
Reuters– January 25, 2005
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) – An abandoned, but well-maintained, British Columbia mining town, complete with library, pub and hospital, has been sold to an unidentified Virginia property developer who must now decide what he wants to do with it.
The buyer paid less than C$7 million (3.03 million pounds) for Kitsault, located on a fjord near the Alaska Panhandle about 500 miles (800 km) northwest of Vancouver,
John Greenwood and Garry Marr, The National Post, Sept 14, 2004
The town of Kitsault in Northern British Columbia boasts 90 homes, several apartment buildings, a shopping mall and even a hospital. And it can be yours for $7 million.
“I’ve never sold anything like this before,” says Rudy Nielsen, owner of NIHO Land & Cattle Co., which is marketing the property. “All the streets are paved, there’s lighting,
Paul Waldie, Globe and Mail, Sept 14, 2004
Rudy Nielsen has dealt with some unique properties in his 40 years of selling ranches and vacation homes around British Columbia, but he has never tackled anything quite like this before.
Mr. Nielsen is marketing an entire town, Kitsault, B.C. to be exact, and the asking price is $7 million. For that price, the buyer gets not only 92 houses perched on a mountain’s edge in a tranquil ocean inlet,
Heather Ramsay, Northword Magazine, Winter 2004-2005
“It was utopia,” says John Wheatley, who along with his wife of 48 years, Patricia, was the longest resident of Kitsault, a remote mining town 140 kilometres north by air from Prince Rupert now on the market for $7 million.
The couple retired to Houston last year, but for the previous 15 they lived in an eerily well-maintained but empty town, at the end of idyllic Alice Arm.
John Gray, South China Morning Post, September 29, 2004
Despite rising prices, C$7 million (HK$42.81 million) seems high, even for a spot on the Pacific Ocean coast ringed by snow-capped mountains.
But think what you get for your money. On sale is Kitsault town, 800km north of Vancouver. It covers 130 hectares, on which stand 90 houses, seven apartment buildings containing more than 200 units, a shopping centre and two recreation centres.
El Contacto Directo – September 17, 2004
KITSAULT, B.C. La ciudad abandonada de Kitsault está a la venta a un precio inicial de $7 millones. Por ese precio, el comprador consigue no sólo 92 casas construidas sobre el borde de una montaña, una entrada tranquila del océano, un bosque denso de hoja perenne y rodeado por vistas de montaña costeras, sino también: siete edificios de apartamentos con 210 suites; un hospital totalmente equipado,
Medicine Hat News, CP, September 15, 2004
TORONTO (CP) — Rudy Nielsen has dealt with some unique properties in his 40 years of selling ranches and vacation homes around British Columbia, but he has never tackled anything quite like this before.
Nielsen is selling an entire town, Kitsault, B.C., to be exact, and the asking price is $7 million. For that price, the buyer gets 92 houses perched on a mountain’s edge in a tranquil ocean inlet,