In May, the Thiel family, which owns much of the financial district and who are embarking on an ambitious development project called 22nd Commerce Square, asked the courts to review the province’s issuance of an unprecedented exemption to Nova Centre developer Joe Ramia; the exemption allows Ramia to bypass normal city development approval processes. In June, the Heritage Trust...
Archives for July 2014
Hmmm. Mia Moretti or Halifax? Morning File, Monday, July 7, 2014
News 1. Jazz Festival hit twice The Halifax Jazz Festival is having a rough time of it this year; the first two nights of the nine-day festival saw no-shows by two headline performers. On Friday night, the Eddie Palmieri Latin Jazz Septet cancelled “due to unforeseen circumstances.” Festival organizers apologized profusely to the folks lining up for […]
Day of the Apocalypse: Morning File, July 5, 2014
News 1. It’s going to rain today And CBC is on it. See here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. Imagine if those newsroom resources were put into, I dunno, maybe reporting that abortion is nearly illegal in New Brunswick? 2. Abortion is nearly illegal in […]
Groups may have to compromise on housing plans for St. Pat’s-Alexandra site
North end residents dreamed big about the future of St. Pat’s-Alexandra at a meeting last night, but heard they may have to compromise on their housing goals. About 70 people attended the consultation at the Halifax North Memorial Public Library to yet again speak their minds on the future of the former school site. It...
Medieval maps and Kazakhstani Cows: Morning File, Friday, July 4, 2014
News 1. Convention Centre war escalates There appears to be worry in mucky muckdom over the Nova Centre. Reportedly, the Stonecutters met Saturday and agreed to buy a full-page ad in the Chronicle Herald. The ad denigrates Heritage Trust for impeding all progress and erasing Halifax from the map by asking the court to review the Nova Centre approval. […]
Scapegoating Heritage Trust
It’s Beat Up on Heritage Trust time. Again. This time it’s a full page ad in the Chronicle Herald signed by seemingly everyone in town connected in some way to the development industry, including Sarah Dennis, the Herald’s owner and publisher, and her husband Mark Lever, the company’s president. The ad attacks Heritage Trust for asking for […]
Victoria Hall has been converted into apartments
Victoria Hall is up for rent. The Gottingen Street heritage building that once served as housing for low-income senior women is currently being renovated into a market-rate apartment building. A couple weeks ago, Home Rents rental specialist Debbie White took me on a tour of the nearly 33,000 square foot French chateau-style building. The 50...
A funny thing happened on the way to the Forum: Morning File, July 3, 2014
News 1. Peter Kelly has a new job. I was at a Canada Day barbecue Tuesday, watching the fireworks from a Gottingen Street balcony, when a friend who lives in a Sackville apartment building told me that the guy coming around to spray his building for bugs looks a whole lot like former Mayor Peter […]
Former Mayor Peter Kelly has a new job
Peter Kelly has found a job. The former mayor is now working at a pest control company owned by his former employee, Stephen Taylor. Residents say Kelly has shown up at their apartment buildings donned in protective gear and carrying a tank, spraying for bugs. Taylor has long been a dedicated supporter of Kelly. Taylor worked...
Franklin Holtforster, the manager of the disastrous Bluenose II restoration, calls himself a Rapacious Capitalist Bastard
“You know how construction projects always go to hell and are over budget and always late? Ours don’t,” Franklin Holtforster told the Ottawa Business Journal in a puff piece on Holtoforster’s company, MHPM Project Managers Inc. MHPM is of course the firm “managing” the disastrous (re?)construction of the Bluenose II. Explains writer Rob Gordon in today’s Globe […]
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