Posted May 6, 2014, 11:56 PM
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opinionated so and so
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Halifax, NS
Posts: 721
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Oh so many things to say!
1 - HRM rules do not bind the province. They are the only landlord in downtown that can ignore the rules. If they tear down Dennis they could do surface parking.
2 - I have suggested to Minister Kousoulis that my personal view is they should sell the thing unless they are ready to build in the next 18 months.
3 - Public lands plan is a great plan, but there are some problems - angle parking on Argyle does not work, and parking under Grand Parade is pretty much financially unlikely as the old stables have the NS power transformers for downtown in them! At least they got the parking out of grand parade and completed the external renovation of city hall.
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4 - Labi has said Prov will build something that conforms with HRM by D and have some storefronts or storefront like space (which he and I also both want to see restored to the Johnson building at Prince/Barrington)
5 - I like the 1990s design better than the 2000s design, at least it had street level retail.
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