2010 DCI Award winners

Dave MacSween, the name behind Dave’s Cave, along with the restaurant and nightclub called Globe World Flavours and David MacKenzie of the Confederation Centre were all winners at this year’s award ceremony hosted by Downtown Charlottetown Inc.

MacSween is the retailer-of-the-year, Globe World Flavours is the business improvement of the year winner and MacKenzie receives the 2009 President’s Award.

MacSween now runs Queen Street Outlet, a women’s clothing shop entering its fifth year of operation. He began work at Henderson and Cudmore in 1965. Owner Brian Cudmore used MacSween’s first name to create a brand that grew to became a group of top independent jean stores in Canada.

MacSween became a buyer for the stores. When H&C closed in 2001 MacSween opened Beyond the Beach in Charlottetown and The Edge in Summerside before moving to create the Queen Street Outlet store.

“This was a big surprise,” said MacSween when he accepted the award at the DCI annual meeting Tuesday. “This is kind of like winning an Oscar for me.”

The citation for Globe World Flavours highlights many well-known establishments that led up to the current business on Victoria Row that is jointly owned by Steve Barber and Jacob Hiemstra.

The opened Hunter’s Ale House in July 2005 and then opened Globe World Flavours in the location that was once Pat’s Rose and Grey Room, Island Rock Café and Brennens.

The conversion and restoration of that site gains the Globe the honour of business improvement of the year.

The citation says that the building dates back to 1884 but the look of the new business is a “modern and trendy eatery and night spot.”

“The Globe is designed without traditional décor to give a ‘big city feel,’ ” says the citation.

David MacKenzie, chief executive officer of the Confederation Centre was recognized for his professional and volunteer work that supports the downtown environment. Prior to joining the centre he was co-owner of Smitty’s restaurant, and executive director of the Capital Commission.

He is currently the P.E.I. representative on the Canadian Chamber of Commerce.