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PICTOU – Rob Christie says he can identify with the 10 “rock star” rules for personal and professional success.
The rules formed part of an address by author and public speaker Steve Jones on how people can brand themselves and their products earlier Wednesday during the Advocate’s social media workshop.
“Yeah,” Christie said. “That’s us.”
Christie and his wife Irene Szabla recently purchased the centre building that previously housed a brewery operation in Pictou’s former foundry complex on Front Street. They plan to open a pub and have rented out space for Artisans in Action, a group of artists who have established an art gallery and hosted an open house Thursday.
They lived in western Canada and moved to Pictou from Yukon last year.
“We’re committed to the town and the art community,” Christie said as he explained his and Irene’s reason for buying the building, which has been for sale for more than a decade since the brewery business closed.
“We see real potential here, although we’re not sure what form it will take,” Christie said.
Bob and Irene have considered a retail establishment similar to the Masstown Market in the front part of the building that needs a tenant, where people can walk to and purchase produce and other items.
“We have to get the community going,” Irene said. “There is so much potential.”
Both Bob and Irene are visionary, but they credit the work of master craftsman John McCabe for much of the building’s improvements, and renovations they have made to their residence in one of the stone buildings they bought on Water Street.
A former beverage sampling table is now skirted with parts of two doors that came out of the house.
They had a kitchen moved from the house into the art gallery and partly enclosed it with a new partition.
Plans also include storage units with a brick façade behind the building.
