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I get the feeling that turn of phrase was published more because of how it sounded than because of how true it is. That sort of thing plus the focus on business personalities gives ANS a tabloid feel sometimes unfortunately. I don't know what the readership is like but I'd prefer if it were mostly hard news plus separate, well-identified opinion pieces.
The double standards and journalism "narratives" with a life of their own really do bother me though. Did anybody claim that the closure of Linens 'n Things or whatever it was in Bayers Lake was the death knell for big box parks in the HRM? I bet many people took the ebbing away comment at face value and were therefore misled by the article. |
Whoa whoa whoa, John Doull's is closing!? :(
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Ah sorry I thought the conversation was about Garden View until I looked back. I think I was in the wrong thread lol.
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According to an ANS article, an Avison Young report speculated that construction will begin in 2012 for Waterside. Perhaps they will shuffle some tenants around from other Armour Group buildings, or maybe there will be some other potential tenants possibly related to the shipbuilding contract (I'm not really sure how much office space would be needed as a result of that -- will Irving need new space? Do they have room for offices at the shipyard?).
I don't subscribe to the "build it and they will come" philosophy for the downtown, but I do think there are definite advantages to moving tenants around and to building modern space. I sometimes wonder how much the aging office stock downtown hurts the desirability of the area. In any case, a Waterside start would be huge and could happen alongside TD and possibly the Nova Centre. What a shot in the arm for the downtown that would be! It will be nice just to see cranes in the CBD area for once. |
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I really really hope this pulls through soon. That block has looked depressed for far too long.
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Great news! Should be able to update this to "U/C" soon.
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Not sure if this has been posted yet but here is an elevation of the building from hpwatersidecentre.ca:
http://www.hpwatersidecentre.ca/imag...s_building.gif This is a great example of reuse that I mentioned a while ago in another thread. The Imperial Oil building is worthy of preservation, but it does not necessarily make sense to keep it completely intact as a two-storey building in the heart of the downtown core. By building offices on top we get the best of both worlds. It will also be nice to have the empty lot filled in, and this will pair nicely with some of the work that has been done on the Morse's Teas building. If the Waterside Centre is built this will be quite a nice block. |
This is a really great building for Halifax and what we need to focus on - simple, modern infill.
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