CHILL Soda Shop is up for sale as the owners say they are moving on to new ventures.
The business, located in the city-owned Kwinitsa building on the eastern end of the millennium trail has been open for four seasons, and owner Chris Arnold says it is not closing the doors because of financial issues.
Instead he and his wife, Mel Denomme, have turned their attention to a project in Nicaragua where they are working with friends turning old shipping containers into community centers and medical clinics.
“We need to be able to downsize some of our projects and work load,” Arnold explained.
He said they started to test the waters on a sale last spring, but decided to keep the store open for one more season.
Arnold hopes that whoever buys the store decides to keep it open as a hard ice cream shop, the only one of its kind in Terrace.
“It would a shame to see it just close completely,” he said.
Arnold and his wife opened Chill after working with the city and others to renovate the building, which had been a CN foreman’s residence located at Kwinitsa along the rail line between Terrace and Prince Rupert.
“It was really cool how it all evolved,” Arnold said. “It’s been a really neat project.”
The shop will stay open until the end of the season, which Arnold thinks will be sometime mid-September.