[Halifax] Nova Centre | 65-58-58 m | 16-15-14 fl | Completed

[FuzzyWuz]

Originally Posted by Haliguy

The only part of the $500 million that has its funding in place is the $375 million proposed convention centre

Dear Mr. Ruffman: You had ONE number to quote and you got it wrong. Why the hell should I listen to anything else you say?

[Waye Mason]

Also the same Interim Planning Area process stopped rural development in the lead up to the Centre Plan in 2005 in Nova Scotia.

Also the MPS that has been passed by HRM already after public hearing already approves the Convention Centre, so the statement "mandatory municipal permits are debated, approved by, and issued by HRM" implying there is no approval is not correct. The old pre consultation plan is approved other than a review by DRC for qualitative elements.

The public consultation part requires MPS amendment, but this isn't a debate anymore about "is this going to happen" the debate is "what will it look like" and even there height and towers and whatnot is not on the table.

[halifaxboyns]

Originally Posted by Waye Mason

Also the same Interim Planning Area process stopped rural development in the lead up to the Centre Plan in 2005 in Nova Scotia.

You beat me to it - I remember being around when it happened and the NS Homebuilders went...they imploded. There was meetings with them and they came out and called staff Nazi's (I was there and saw it).

The simple fact of the matter is that the MGA provides this power - the Province can use it anytime it wants. The reference to Alberta is without merit and fact; given all the flood stuff. No one has any idea or concept of the scale of what's going on - so to say High River will be (with certainty) having an interim planning order is frankly putting the cart before the horse.

The more appropriate example (which I used earlier) was the Saddledome. To save people from scrolling backward - here it is: 1998 Calgary Games required the saddledome. The community of Ramsey (in Calgary) didn't like the proposal - it was approved, they appealed and won. The approval was overturned. So, they started again and re-approved it with some changes to calm their concerns (but yet again they appealed). As the appeal was about to be heard, the day before the appeal, the Province passed a Municipal Planning Statement of Interest, which exempted the site (to this day). So the appeal board couldn't hear the matter (they had no jurisdiction) and the place was built. They could (HRM) if they really wanted to play mean (if you could call it that) - go the same route. But that might be a bit heavy handed...

[pblaauw]

Originally Posted by JET

I remember when they were building the current WTC, I was peeking through the hoarding at the hole in the ground and noticed that someone has scrawled, "Uniters of the world work". I might be a leftie, but i do have a sense of humour.

Tories are all so serious!

[someone123]

This development now has the go-ahead to proceed with underground construction work: http://novascotia.ca/news/release/?id=20130801003

It will be great to see footings and cranes go in.

[teddifax]

Pictures taken today.http://www.flickr.com/photos/81832891@N04/9498839460/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/81832891@N04/9498840392/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/81832891@N04/9496038963/

[fenwick16]

Thank you for the pictures teddifax. Hopefully we will see some concrete being poured soon and a crane.

[Duff]

Nova Centre plan gets makeover

Design changes to Halifax’s new convention centre resulted in the site getting a public plaza that will be active and vibrant, says the project’s architect.

Jamie Wright, director of IBI Architects Atlantic, said Monday the square added to the downtown project will be big enough to hold concerts and other outdoor events.

“I think it’s going to be a very exciting space,” the Truro-born architect said in an interview.

The original Nova Centre plan called for Grafton Street to become a pedestrian mall. But the plaza, temporarily dubbed Nova Square, was added after design changes were made to the hotel part of the complex because of traffic concerns.

Read the rest here - http://thechronicleherald.ca/business/1148724-nova-centre-plan-gets-makeover

[worldlyhaligonian]

Reading the comments section on these Nova Centre articles is a waste of time...

The design changes seem to make sense, but I thought this was the plan before because it showed vehicle on Grafton in the renders anyway.

They could fix up the south corner at Argyle from the last iteration, it could be more street friendly.

[halifaxboyns]

Not sure if anyone had a look at this link; but it has more details of the actual convention centre space (subject to approval of course). Apparently 3 or 4 large conferences are already booked for when the centre opens. That's a good start - I'd actually suggest that as they get more bigger conferences, they put them on their website too. Just to show that it's likely going to be used a lot more than the old one!

[RyeJay]

Originally Posted by halifaxboyns

Not sure if anyone had a look at this link; but it has more details of the actual convention centre space (subject to approval of course). Apparently 3 or 4 large conferences are already booked for when the centre opens. That's a good start - I'd actually suggest that as they get more bigger conferences, they put them on their website too. Just to show that it's likely going to be used a lot more than the old one!

The rendering this website uses as its headline background is something that has never been posted here, I believe. This picture isn't the most recently released, since it's still showing curves.

Newest version

[kwajo]

Does that mean this is the most recent rendering:



[credit from novacentre.ca]

[teddifax]

Originally Posted by kwajo

Does that mean this is the most recent rendering:



[credit from novacentre.ca]

Yes, it is!!!

[Aya_Akai]

I was walking downtown today and noticed that there were blasting signs up around a few places (I had thought they were done blasting for the site prep) so I went to go check things out up at Nova Centre.. they were in mid-drill/blast prep on the northeast corner of the site... the size of the blast area they were prepping looks to me a lot like the prep for a crane base.....

[NewBalearic]

The crane base arrived on site yesterday and they were prepping the area to pour concrete this morning. I supposed we could see a crane on site as early as this weekend.

Anyone know how many cranes this project will require?

[Duff]

Originally Posted by NewBalearic

The crane base arrived on site yesterday and they were prepping the area to pour concrete this morning. I supposed we could see a crane on site as early as this weekend.

Anyone know how many cranes this project will require?

I heard from someone close to Lead that there will be 4 cranes in total.

[kph06]

Looks like it will be the crane from the second Abigail building on Larry Uteck.

[Ziobrop]

Crane is Going in this morning.

-Peter
blog.builthalifax.ca

[halifaxboyns]

Some amendments to the Downtown LUB/MPS will be needed because of some map and diagram changes and to facilitate the closure of Prince Street. The Initiation Report is now posted and will be considered by Regional Council on Tuesday.

[fenwick16]

Originally Posted by halifaxboyns

Some amendments to the Downtown LUB/MPS will be needed because of some map and diagram changes and to facilitate the closure of Prince Street. The Initiation Report is now posted and will be considered by Regional Council on Tuesday.

Thank you for posting the link halifaxboyns. In the Initiation Report link there is also a link to the case details, which gives shadow studies, wind studies, landscaping and site building plans - http://www.halifax.ca/planning/Case18708Details.html