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

[Ziobrop]

Originally Posted by teddifax

Has the final design been approved? I hadn't heard anything but it seems they are building the centre now. Any word on what the hotel is going to be?

Yes - all permits have been issued since June.

No word on the hotel yet.

[teddifax]

Thank you for updating me. I am glad this is being built and look forward to seeing it completed.

[teddifax]

Has anyone seen this, it is very impressive! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9twn6nWtSs

[MonctonRad]

Very nice, although I don't know why they refer to Halifax as Atlantic Canada's "Hub City", I think that name was taken decades ago by a different community……

[teddifax]

I noticed that too, Halifax, Warden of the North, City of Trees, but never Hub City.

[counterfactual]

Originally Posted by teddifax

Has anyone seen this, it is very impressive! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9twn6nWtSs

That's great.

You know, for all the hand wringing, this is going to be a pretty damn impressive structure right in the heart of downtown.

[someone123]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

Very nice, although I don't know why they refer to Halifax as Atlantic Canada's "Hub City", I think that name was taken decades ago by a different community……

Truro's just a town though, not a city. And let's be honest; it's out in the middle of nowhere. I'm pretty sure everything north of there is polar bear and igloo territory.

[MonctonRad]

I can't think of a better way to connect SGR to the downtown financial district than the Nova Centre project.

[MonctonRad]

Originally Posted by someone123

Truro's just a town though, not a city.

Truro = hub of Nova Scotia
Moncton = hub of the Maritimes
Halifax = hub of Atlantic Canada

I guess that makes Toronto the hub of Canada!

[someone123]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

I guess that makes Toronto the hub of Canada!

It's pretty easy to argue that it is, in the more significant sense of attracting people, if not necessarily in the less significant "lots of people drive through this place" sense, although that's partly true too.

[Hali87]

An article a buddy of mine wrote for the Coast:

Nova Centre could mean big bucks for Halifax sex workers
Convention centre has lots of potential for economic spinoff.

Dreams of green are turning Halifax’s biggest hole into its newest convention centre, and the oldest profession has cause for excitement.

So far there are about 13,000 delegates lined up to attend 18 events when the Nova Centre opens in 2016. Local sex workers expect that will make business busier than usual.

“A lot of businessmen have an entertainment allowance and they use it for whatever they want to be entertained by,” said one Halifax-based sex worker. “Out-of-town clients are about 60 percent of the business right now.”

Business travellers are why one local sex worker allows clients to pay by credit card—with the nature of the transaction concealed.

“A lot of them will use [their company credit card] or write it off as a business expense,” she says.

A 2011 report by the Berkeley Electronic Press found evidence for the long-assumed link between come-from-away conventioneers and increased sex work. Focusing specifically on political conventions—namely, the 2008 Democratic and Republican National Conventions—the researchers found substantial increases in the number of local sex-work ads during those events.

“We find that the conventions caused a 29 to 44 percent increase in advertisements in Minneapolis and a 47-77 percent increase in Denver.” This phenomenon doesn’t necessarily result from sex workers putting in crazy overtime hours, though.

“You can only do as much business as you can do,” notes one Halifax worker. “I think most people are probably at full capacity, or as close to it as they want to be.”

Of course just because we build it, doesn’t mean they will come. Heywood Sanders, author of Convention Center Follies and professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio, is familiar with Halifax’s Nova Centre and doesn’t expect it to draw much business. He says there’s a glut of convention centres in North America, resulting in a pattern of underperformance.

“There's just no guarantee at all that building more space or an entirely new centre is going to get you any new business,” Sanders said in a phone interview.

Trade Centre Limited, meanwhile, predicts a slew of economic goodies from the new centre, projecting bookings that they estimate will bring in more than $18 million. Scott Ferguson, TCL’s president and CEO, says the construction phase and first 10 years of operation will create almost $190 million in tax revenues and nearly 30,000 “person years” of employment.

Will it help the Halifax sex industry as well?

“I really haven't given it a lot of thought,” he says.

Source

[Keith P.]

I thought that when Bousquet worked for the Coast he claimed that nobody went to conventions any more and that this project would not do anything for local business?

Pretty bad when your local extreme-left giveaway fishwrap can't even keep their stories straight.

[counterfactual]

Originally Posted by Hali87

An article a buddy of mine wrote for the Coast:


Source

That article is pure trolling.

What's the next headline on point?

LOCAL DRUG DEALERS STOKED FOR NOVA CENTRE

"If you watch the movies, it's always business guys snorting coke off tables with credit cards", said local coke dealer Mike MacKay, "we're excited that the Nova Centre will bring depraved druggies to the city!"

BIG TOBACCO LOBBYISTS EXCITED FOR THE NEW CONVENTION CENTRE

A spokesperson for the Big Tobacco Lobby indicated that they would consider having a conference at the Nova Centre once it is completed. Reached by telephone for a comment by The Coast, Jason Smith, a Big Tobacco lobbyist, said "Where? In Halifax? Sure, why not?" Meanwhile, billionaire Big Tobacco Executive Russell MacDonald said that "sounds like an idea", as he tried selling a pack of smokes to a group of kids passing by.

[beyeas]

Originally Posted by Keith P.

I thought that when Bousquet worked for the Coast he claimed that nobody went to conventions any more and that this project would not do anything for local business?

Pretty bad when your local extreme-left giveaway fishwrap can't even keep their stories straight.

at least he refrained from creating a pun about the link between sex traffic and "Halifax's biggest hole" Small mercies.

[Keith P.]

Originally Posted by beyeas

at least he refrained from creating a pun about the link between sex traffic and "Halifax's biggest hole" Small mercies.

Well, that has been filled quite dramatically and completely, to our satisfaction and delight.

[ns_kid]

Originally Posted by Hali87

Of course just because we build it, doesn’t mean they will come, (sez) Heywood Sanders, author of Convention Center Follies and professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio...

And speaking of prostitutes...

[Ziobrop]

the water tanks for the HVAC System are going in today. there will be 4 total. the boilers will also go down there.
From http://novacenter.builthalifax.ca/

[kph06]

First track of the crawler for the trusses is in place, looking forward to photos from the ground.


Source: NS Webcams

[fenwick16]

Originally Posted by kph06

First track of the crawler for the trusses is in place, looking forward to photos from the ground.

http://images.novascotiawebcams.com/nova...tre_20141003-184224_7bhbhEKhEElftM74.jpg
Source: NS Webcams

This is absolutely amazing! It appears as though the crawler crane will move across a platform to install the steel trusses. I wonder if as the steel trusses are installed it will just keep crawling across the installed trusses? The crawler crane now has both tracks and part of the body assembled - http://images.novascotiawebcams.com/nova...tre_20141004-140550_GjV90WqULlZkrohQ.jpg

[Ziobrop]

Nope the crane stays put. The trusses will be delivered in 3 pieces. Each piece will be lowered into the hole and be supported by the steel on the convention floor. They will be assembled and then rolled into place