NORTH Vancouver's Taylor's Crossing brewpub has closed its doors.
Owners of the watering hole told staff Dec. 27 the business had been shut down after seven years at its Marine Drive and Mackay Road location. The microbrewery and liquor store will stay open. In 2010, owner Mark James unsuccessfully asked the City of North Vancouver for permission to move the liquor store, arguing the business would fail without a better location.
Recently asked what had led to the abrupt closure, Mark James's director of operations, Fraser Boyer, was hesitant to go into specifics.
"I don't want to have my laundry aired in the North Shore News," he said. "Conversations like this that I've had in the past with the press have turned out to be something I shouldn't have done, so I prefer to say nothing."
Boyer went on to explain that the business was for sale, and that a similar operation could well come to occupy the space.
"There will be a restaurant and a pub there; it just won't be run by us," he said. "I would imagine it would more than likely . . . reopen under different management."
Asked about the lack of notice given to employees - an issue raised by a former staff member with the North Shore News - Boyer said it was an unfortunate reality of the industry.
"It's in the best interests of the building that it's done in this fashion," he said. "It's standard practice in the restaurant business."
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