During the summer, business leaders warned about an impending wave of closures if a second wave of COVID-19 hit.
They warned that businesses seeing steep drop-offs in customers could only hold out for so long.
In Burnaby, businesses big and small have closed – from major retailers like Microsoft, Davids Tea and Le Chateau to small restaurants including the Pear Tree on Hastings.
In the Metrotown area, another restaurant has closed down due to the financial bloodbath that is the pandemic.
Peninsula, a seafood restaurant at 4555 Kingsway Avenue, has been locked out of its location by its landlord due to unpaid rent, according to a notice posted in the window.
“As the Tenant under the Lease, you are in breach of the Lease for unpaid Rent in the amount of $45,842.55,” reads the letter.
Peninsula has a second location on W. 41 Avenue in Vancouver and that restaurant is listed at temporarily closed.
This news follows another Burnaby restaurant closing its doors temporarily amid pandemic issues.
The Chopped Leaf outlet in the UniverCity development on Burnaby Mountain next to SFU has closed its doors “due to COVID,” according to a letter.
It’s unclear if the closure is due to one or several COVID-19 cases among the staff or if it’s due to pandemic-related impacts on customer traffic. With SFU’s campus closed to classes right now, the UniverCity community saw fewer students move in at the start of the school year.
The closure follows Burnaby breaking a weekly record for COVID-19 cases recently.
The latest data from the BC Centre for Disease Control show that from Nov. 29-Dec. 5, Burnaby had 238 cases. That’s the exact same number Burnaby had for the entire month of September, according to the BCCDC.
New cases of COVID-19 also skyrocketed in Burnaby in November with 1,081. That’s a huge jump from the 287 cases Burnaby had in all of October and 238 cases in September.
According to the BCCDC, Burnaby has now seen 1,938 COVID-19 cases between Jan. 1 and Nov. 30, 2020.
