The Official Moncton, NB Project Thread - Page 646

MonctonRad · #**12901** Posted **Oct 25, 2022, 12:48 PM**

Some colour for the page (from Mayor Dawn Arnold's Facebook page).

Downtown Moncton as seen overlooking the settling ponds of the wastewater treatment plant on Outhouse Point in Riverview.

Portalrules123 · #**12902** Posted **Oct 28, 2022, 11:26 PM**

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Colour me very surprised, but it sounds like both the Vineyard and EastGate Village have lived to survive another day despite the opposition of town planning, the PAC and the Mayor's office! I thought both proposals were dead in the water!!!

The council went against their planners, and the committee? Huh....seems kinda fishy.....would be curious to know the motivation behind the votes.

RHINO · #**12903** Posted **Oct 29, 2022, 1:34 AM**

You guys have a large project under construction and NOT ONE you has posted more then an accidental image of it in over a year. What a waste of a thread.

MonctonRad · #**12904** Posted **Oct 29, 2022, 1:46 AM**

Not sure what project you’re referring to, but if it’s the Three Sisters, it’s got it’s own thread with well over 250 posts.

Leroy321 · #**12905** Posted **Oct 29, 2022, 1:50 AM**

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riverviewer · #**12906** Posted **Oct 29, 2022, 12:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by MonctonRad

Not sure what project you’re referring to, but if it’s the Three Sister, it’s got it’s own thread with well over 250 posts.

Maybe mods need to put a sticky at the top of the Moncton Thread that is a directory of sub-threads in use.

Riberview · #**12907** Posted **Oct 29, 2022, 1:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by RHINO

You guys have a large project under construction and NOT ONE you has posted more then an accidental image of it in over a year. What a waste of a thread.

Enlighten us

MonctonRad · #**12908** Posted **Oct 29, 2022, 1:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by Riberview

Enlighten us

I doubt you will get any satisfaction.

It was a drive by comment by an infrequent poster from Kamloops, who was likely browsing, and probably noticed the Three Sisters project in the photo at the top of the page. He probably checked the Moncton thread for a few pages, and noticed no comments about this project, and, not realizing we have a whole friggin thread dealing with the topic, decided to lambaste us as a bunch of laggards.

It's all good. No sense getting our backs up over this.

Riberview · #**12909** Posted **Oct 29, 2022, 2:19 PM**

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Originally Posted by MonctonRad

I doubt you will get any satisfaction.

It was a drive by comment by an infrequent poster from Kamloops, who was likely browsing, and probably noticed the Three Sisters project in the photo at the top of the page. He probably checked the Moncton thread for a few pages, and noticed no comments about this project, and, not realizing we have a whole friggin thread dealing with the topic, decided to lambaste us as a bunch of laggards.

It's all good. No sense getting our backs up over this.

tmacdougall · #**12910** Posted **Oct 31, 2022, 10:52 AM**

The new 300,000 sq./ft., $700M Atlantic Science Enterprise Centre is expected to break ground in November, 2022 with an expected completion date of 2031.

The building will be home to the following departments;
Environment and Climate Change Canada
Canadian Food Inspection Agency
National Research Council of Canada
Canadian Space Agency (virtual partner)

The new building will staff approximately 700 staff and is anticipated to be 5X the size of the current headquarters.

MonctonRad · #**12911** Posted **Oct 31, 2022, 11:28 AM**

Which news source is this from? Just wondering.

It is getting close to the time that ASEC would be getting off the ground, so I don't doubt this, but things have been very quiet on this front for almost a year. Nothing has been brought forward recently either to PAC or city council AFAIK.

adamuptownsj · #**12912** Posted **Oct 31, 2022, 12:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by MonctonRad

Which news source is this from? Just wondering.

It is getting close to the time that ASEC would be getting off the ground, so I don't doubt this, but things have been very quiet on this front for almost a year. Nothing has been brought forward recently either to PAC or city council AFAIK.

I saw it on All Atlantic, but I'm not sure if the completion date is for the first or second phase.

MonctonRad · #**12913** Posted **Oct 31, 2022, 12:33 PM**

Thanks. This is a very expensive project with a long, drawn out construction timeline (not surprising given the complexities of building a major research institution).

It should be noted that in addition to all the agencies listed in tmacdougall's post, the ASEC will of course also house the DFO Gulf Fisheries Centre too.

This building will be the most expensive federal investment in Atlantic Canada since the construction of the Confederation Bridge.

zostera · #**12914** Posted **Oct 31, 2022, 5:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by adamuptownsj

I saw it on All Atlantic, but I'm not sure if the completion date is for the first or second phase.

2031 is for completion of the entire project, phase 1 is planned to be finished earlier than that (I think 2025-2026). The "99%" design was recently presented to all staff, I expect they'll start in earnest soon.

Some highlights: 1.5 levels of underground parking, including for all fleet vehicles; geothermal heating; one North Atlantic right whale skeleton.

Nashe · #**12915** Posted **Oct 31, 2022, 6:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by zostera

2031 is for completion of the entire project, phase 1 is planned to be finished earlier than that (I think 2025-2026). The "99%" design was recently presented to all staff, I expect they'll start in earnest soon.

Some highlights: 1.5 levels of underground parking, including for all fleet vehicles; geothermal heating; one North Atlantic right whale skeleton.

I hear SJ has a blue whale model needing a home....

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-museum-moving-day-1.6630213

MonctonRad · #**12916** Posted **Oct 31, 2022, 6:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by Vorkuta

I hear SJ has a blue whale model needing a home....

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-museum-moving-day-1.6630213

No need. Dominic has had a whale skeleton in storage for years waiting for this building to be built.

Nashe · #**12917** Posted **Oct 31, 2022, 6:38 PM**

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No need. Dominic has had a whale skeleton in storage for years waiting for this building to be built.

We could do a cetacean version of Turducken!

MonctonRad · #**12918** Posted **Oct 31, 2022, 6:50 PM**

Blue, Atlantic Right and Humpback! I'm in.

Leroy321 · #**12919** Posted **Oct 31, 2022, 6:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by tmacdougall

The new 300,000 sq./ft., $700M Atlantic Science Enterprise Centre is expected to break ground in November, 2022 with an expected completion date of 2031.

The building will be home to the following departments;
Environment and Climate Change Canada
Canadian Food Inspection Agency
National Research Council of Canada
Canadian Space Agency (virtual partner)

The new building will staff approximately 700 staff and is anticipated to be 5X the size of the current headquarters.

Would anyone know how many stories this is?

MonctonRad · #**12920** Posted **Oct 31, 2022, 7:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by Leroy321

Would anyone know how many stories this is?

It's not that tall. Maybe 6-7 storeys at most (although these would be tall floors).

I have an unofficial render at home. I will dig it up later this evening. This render however is out of date, and there have likely been significant changes. No doubt if they are breaking ground next month, there will be another official announcement, and perhaps they will have updated renders for the media at that point.