New owners for former Pizza Delight in Sackville
The former Pizza Delight property on Mallard Drive in Sackville has been sold.
A new numbered company (752259 NB Inc.) bought the property, and according to Service New Brunswick’s property online service, paid $645,000 for the building and land. That’s $95,000 more than was paid two years ago, in the summer of 2022.
The directors of the new company are Surendra Prasad Semwal of Stratford, PEI and Preetpal Sohi of McLeod Hill, just outside of Fredericton. They registered their New Brunswick company in January 2024, and also operate a New Brunswick company called Namaste FGC, which is opening a bar and grill at the Fredericton Golf Club.
According to the website NamasteBistro.ca, the pair also run restaurants in Miramichi and Charlottetown, under the names Namaste Miramichi and Taste of India.
CHMA has reached out to the new owners to learn about their plans for their Sackville property.
The property at 24 Mallard Drive includes the former Pizza Delight building, and a triangular lot that stretches down to the parking lot at the Sackville Visitor Information Centre.
Since the property last changed hands, Tantramar council has voted twice to expand the possibilities for the property.
In 2023, council voted to allow drive-thru restaurants in Sackville’s highway-commercial zone, and this year they approved starting the process to get rid of a development agreement on the property, which limits possible development to a single restaurant.… Continue
No discussion of proposed drive-thru change; council to decide on process on June 13
When it meets again in three weeks, Tantramar council will decide whether or not to entertain a proposal to change Sackville’s zoning by-law to allow drive-thru restaurants in highway commercial zones at exits 504 and 506.
The owner of the former Pizza Delight building on Mallard Drive (a numbered company owned by Rashaid Tufail) made the application for the by-law change through Plan 360.
On Tuesday afternoon at council’s committee of the whole meeting, CAO Jennifer Borne presented a brief report on the proposed zoning change written by planner Lori Bickford, who was absent. After the report, Mayor Andrew Black instructed councillors to limit their questions to clarification purposes only. Black told councillors that the motion to either “start the process or kill it immediately” would come at their next regular meeting. But although councillors will face that decision on June 13, Black indicated “any bigger questions about what this means for that location will be asked in a public engagement session through the planning process, if it gets to that point.”
In a later interview Black acknowledged those instructions seem to be in contrast to the goal of committee of the whole meetings to allow for open discussion by councillors. He explained that his instructions came out of concern that with neither the proponent nor planner Lori Bickford present, answers to questions might not be available.… Continue