General Updates and News - Page 159

someone123 · #**3161** Posted **Dec 31, 2011, 5:54 AM**

As Halifax grows I think the definition of "downtown" will change a little. Young Street will not be "the heart of downtown Halifax" but Spring Garden and Robie, Barrington and Inglis, or Gottingen and Cunard might be considered the edge.

It will be interesting if demand for office heats up a bit and we see some new buildings in unconventional areas.

q12 · #**3162** Posted **Dec 31, 2011, 1:54 PM**

Here's the story:

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Shaw TV buys Palooka’s Halifax building

December 30, 2011 - 6:41pm BY JOHN DEMONT BUSINESS REPORTER

http://thechronicleherald.ca/business/47601-shaw-tv-buys-palooka-s-halifax-building

Global Maritimes is apparently launching a Morning Show to compete with CTV two's CTV Morning Live.

Hopefully it's something like the one they launched in Toronto in the fall. A morning show with streetfront windows would be cool.

http://www.globaltoronto.com/video/the+morning+show+oct+11/video.html?v=2151466744

Vl@dy · #**3163** Posted **Dec 31, 2011, 11:03 PM**

I know it's early but, in Italy we celebrate the new year right now, so Happy New Year Halifax (I love you), please wait my arrived

alps · #**3164** Posted **Dec 31, 2011, 11:11 PM**

Happy new year! Vl@dy, I recommend you come when it's a little warmer...

Vl@dy · #**3165** Posted **Dec 31, 2011, 11:25 PM**

Thanks alps. I love halifax all seasons

. In Italy is always hot, so the climate of Halifax is perfect for me

-Harlington- · #**3166** Posted **Jan 2, 2012, 12:38 AM**

Queen St. Chickenburger :

And our new downtown ''public art''

Keith P. · #**3167** Posted **Jan 2, 2012, 4:48 PM**

Hideous on both counts.

Jstaleness · #**3168** Posted **Jan 2, 2012, 5:21 PM**

Yeah! Not what I was expecting as far as the art goes. I would rather Excavators and Dump Trucks.

someone123 · #**3169** Posted **Jan 2, 2012, 8:06 PM**

The Nova Centre site is both prominent and unsightly. It really makes the downtown area look bad, just like the United Gulf site. Hopefully construction can begin relatively soon.

RyeJay · #**3170** Posted **Jan 2, 2012, 8:19 PM**

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Originally Posted by someone123

Hopefully construction can begin relatively soon.

Hopefully, before the summer hits.

haligonia · #**3171** Posted **Jan 2, 2012, 8:34 PM**

As soon as the developer finds a tenant for the Financial Centre, we should begin to see some progress.

fenwick16 · #**3172** Posted **Jan 2, 2012, 10:54 PM**

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And our new downtown ''public art''

Is this meant to portray "dying businessmen"? Maybe the artist has connections with STV and is trying to say the convention business is a dying business?

Tourists must be shocked to see bodies left on a vacant lot.

haligonia · #**3173** Posted **Jan 3, 2012, 12:35 AM**

I like the art installation. Aesthetically, it doesn't do a whole lot for the site, but it lets a local artist explore their creativity in a unique environment. I'm sure whoever applied for the project was thrilled to find out that they would be able to use such an interesting space in the middle of the city.

pblaauw · #**3174** Posted **Jan 3, 2012, 5:05 AM**

A couple nights in a row, or at least in the same 7-day span, three Air Canada flights have arrived at YHZ from Toronto, all within minutes of each other. They've been either E190s or A320s/A319s. Wouldn't it be more economical to have ONE 767 or similar, instead of three small-to-medium planes?

My two cents on the "art" at the Nova Centre site: Too few mannequins for such a large space. I expect them to get festered and moldy.

EDIT On this particular night, there is a FOURTH Air Canada plane coming from Toronto, another E190.

RyeJay · #**3175** Posted **Jan 3, 2012, 6:06 AM**

Now the city is playing with its own scabs...
I feel like a parent, telling his kids to "stop picking at it!"

johnny_boy · #**3176** Posted **Jan 3, 2012, 4:13 PM**

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Originally Posted by pblaauw

A couple nights in a row, or at least in the same 7-day span, three Air Canada flights have arrived at YHZ from Toronto, all within minutes of each other. They've been either E190s or A320s/A319s. Wouldn't it be more economical to have ONE 767 or similar, instead of three small-to-medium planes?

EDIT On this particular night, there is a FOURTH Air Canada plane coming from Toronto, another E190.

Depends where the planes are going afterwards. They may have scheduled three smaller planes because they were headed on to three separate locations afterwards. For example, I know that when they do fly the 767 into Halifax it's because it then heads on to Heathrow.

halifaxboyns · #**3177** Posted **Jan 3, 2012, 6:20 PM**

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Depends where the planes are going afterwards. They may have scheduled three smaller planes because they were headed on to three separate locations afterwards. For example, I know that when they do fly the 767 into Halifax it's because it then heads on to Heathrow.

This time of year, to have several jets like that arrive from YYZ is not uncommon because of all the additional flights put on for us easterners to come back.

If you pull up their schedule PDF, you'll notice some flights between YHZ and YYZ that are in the 1600's. Those are all extra flights to handle capacity. So some of those flights take a loss so aircraft can be repositioned for the extra flights. There is an extra flight put on from YHZ to Deer Lake (YDF) that operates as an E90 (AC1642/1643). My flight to YHZ and back was an extra flight and it operated as a 767-300. We went from Calgary, stop in Toronto, stop in Halifax, finish in St. john's and then reverse coming back (AC1604/1605). They also had the direct flight from Calgary to Halifax operating for a while before Christmas as a 319.

Have a look at the AC schedule PDF. All these flights will likely end by Friday.

pblaauw · #**3178** Posted **Jan 3, 2012, 11:19 PM**

It turns out at least one flight was all students, heading back to school after Christmas. A friend of mine is one of those students.

I still question the economics, even though I'm no economist.

halifaxboyns · #**3179** Posted **Jan 3, 2012, 11:45 PM**

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It turns out at least one flight was all students, heading back to school after Christmas. A friend of mine is one of those students.

I still question the economics, even though I'm no economist.

It's not those short flights where they make the huge money. It's on the long flights to Calgary that they added for people like me.
My fare was pretty average, taxes and fees about $1000 round trip.

But at one point economy was more expensive than business (they had it 50% to fill it). The flight was completely full, I can assure you. But the economy fare was $920 one way at one point from YYC to YHZ.

fenwick16 · #**3180** Posted **Jan 4, 2012, 12:49 AM**

There seems to be some very optimistic developers in the HRM. This story was in the Chronicle Herald.

(source: http://thechronicleherald.ca/business/48437-plan-halifax-projects-worth-100m)

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Plan for Halifax projects worth $100m
January 3, 2012 - 7:50pm By CHRIS LAMBIE Business Editor

Developer: Residential, commercial buildings unrelated to shipyard deal

Halifax developer Besim Halef has an ambitious plan to build about $100-million worth of residential and commercial projects in the north and west ends of the city.

Each of the four buildings will cost about $25 million. And Halef, who heads Banc Developments Ltd., said the new projects aren’t being driven by Irving Shipbuilding’s $25-billion worth of shipbuilding work expected to employ thousands of people in the city over the next three decades.

“We bought all of these properties before the shipyard had anything to do with it,” Halef said Tuesday, before noting: “What came with the shipyard is positive, obviously.”
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“We’re still working with the city on heights,” Halef said.

The peninsula needs to change, he said.

“I don’t know why we are so against density,” Halef said. “Really, we have no skyscrapers in Halifax. We have no tall buildings to identify us.”
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