The Project That will Change Gottingen Street
Condos are selling quickly along the street, new developments are in the works and speculators are buying property in the neighbourhood but the catalyst for real change on Gottingen is half sold, according to the website for Gottingen Terrace, 16 brick-and-met...
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New Library
Danish architects schmidt hammer lassen, one of Scandinavia’s most recognised, award-winning practices presented drawing to about 120 people at the third public consultation on the new Spring Garden Road library, held August 25 at Pier 21.
The Nova Scotia ...
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The city should not protect viewplanes from private property
City policy states that the city does not protect viewplanes from private property.
Dartmouth viewplanes established in 1977 included the privately-owned Brightwood golf club because at that time it opened its grounds to the public in the offseason. That p...
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What's that they say about location?
It's a year from completion but lead broker Mariana Cowan says 70 per cent of the condos in Wadih Fares' Trillium building on South Park street are sold at prices ranging from $443K to $5 million.
We've never known a broker to exaggerate but these numbers ...
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It's Scotia Square All Over Again
Certainly the city needs more convention space, but not everyone has been sold by the our-way-or-the-highway approach of proponents of Rank Inc.s plan for the Herald lands.
The center should be on the edge of downtown – not smack in the middle.
The arc...
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A Regional Plan for Absurdity
With its focus on encouraging development and density on the peninsula HRM's Regional Plan sets out restrictions for rural development that lead to absurd, if not perverse land use.
Outside the central core a land owner can only divide a parcel of land of ...
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