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Prinzen Ford Sales Makeover

Sprucing up the shop and showroom a"er 20 years
... with a lot of help from their friends.

f you’ve travelled through Bloom- only part of the story. The whole inte-
field in the course of the last year, rior was revamped as well, with new
Iyou’ll likely have noticed a beehive counters and cabinets, flooring ... right
of activity at the east end of town. down to specified paint colours.
Prinzen Ford Sales has been a It wasn’t easy operating the sales
village icon for decades, and the Ford and service business as usual, with
company decided it was time for a sections closing off while a dozen
makeover. tradespeople did their work.
“They felt it was time for a sprucing “We basically worked around it,”
up,” said co-owner John Carney. “Our John said. “If they were working in one
last reno was in 2002,” that was almost department, we’d move everything to
20 years ago. another spot, and then back again.”
The exterior work was quite visible “And, of course covid didn’t help
to passers-by. Alota Tile was stacking much!”
up huge panels, and the PEC Window John is proud to have supported a
& Glass truck was popping in and out. lot of local workers throughout the
“Putting those tiles up was quite a entire project.
job for PEC Glass,” John says. “We “These folks purchase vehicles and
brought in a boom truck to lift them come here for service. If we need serv-
and bolt them into place.” ices ourselves we like to start at home
Even the parking lot was ripped up first.”
during the work, but the outside is John Carney speaks highly of all the

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