A new home for Bick’s Drugs in 2022

By Joan Janzen

Moving into newly constructed premises is always exciting, whether it’s a residential or commercial building. As owners of Bick’s Drugs, pharmacist Ron Bazin and his wife Tina anticipate moving into their new facility in the first or second quarter of 2022.

The couple recognized the need to modernize to continually provide up-to-date, quality pharmacy care. “A new building was the most appropriate way to move forward in accommodating current and future pharmacy standards,” Tina explained.

Bick’s Drugs’ future home was built at the RTM yard of Voce Developments Corp. in Saskatoon. Voce Developments Corp. has renovated and built several pharmacies and other commercial and residential buildings throughout the prairie provinces. Tina said, “With their knowledge of pharmacy requirements and construction, they helped us plan and design our new building and provided the construction and contracting services for the project.”

Kerrobert Backhoe Services completed excavation and ground preparation before the building was moved onto the site. A new crawl space was dug, and all-new utility lines were run, and a significant amount of groundwork was done to ensure the building and lot were level.

The new 36’x80’ building was moved from Saskatoon to Kerrobert in mid-October by Last Boys Building Movers. It’s now situated at 404 Atlantic Avenue, at Atlantic Avenue and Bosworth Street. Ron and Tina were hoping to be in their new accommodations by the end of December. However, the delivery of their internal furnishings was delayed due to the flooding in B.C. “As a result, we are looking at February for our earliest move-in date,” Tina concluded.

Bick’s Drugs current premises at 437 Atlantic Ave., and their new building located at 404 Atlantic Avenue.