General Updates and News - Page 98

worldlyhaligonian · #**1941** Posted **Dec 22, 2010, 7:29 PM**

I think it was a good statement... I mean, its all true.

Waye Mason · #**1942** Posted **Dec 23, 2010, 2:44 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Keith P.

C'mon folks, get real. That looks awful.

Agreed.

As a side note, did you know SSP requires at least 10 characters not including a quote before you can post?

kph06 · #**1943** Posted **Dec 23, 2010, 9:25 PM**

There is a proposal for a Mr. Lube in the Home Depot on Lacewood parking lot.

Case 16678

Dmajackson · #**1944** Posted **Dec 23, 2010, 11:10 PM**

Gottingen Street Photos (@Falkland Street, @Cunard Street, and two new residential projects):

Agricola @ West Office Building - December 23rd, 2010:

All photos taken by DJ and hosted on Flickr by SSP_Dmajackson_01.

That's all for 2010 folks. Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas to all fellow forumers. Here's to a great year in Halifax developments.

DigitalNinja · #**1945** Posted **Dec 24, 2010, 2:58 AM**

That office building doesn't look to bad at all.

halifaxboyns · #**1946** Posted **Dec 24, 2010, 5:25 AM**

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Originally Posted by Keith P.

He's a Liberal candidate, so he'll say anything to get a vote. Doesn't mean he will do anything though.

I was attempting to be fescious (did I spell that correctly?).

JET · #**1947** Posted **Dec 24, 2010, 1:07 PM**

facetious

It took me a few years to find this, and many misspellings: on the post page there is a spell icon above the smilies that takes you to iespell.com
you can download an icon for your toolbar to spellcheck when on forums. Very handy, when I used it for 'fescious', one of the suggested words was 'fascias', seems appropriate for a development forum.

fenwick16 · #**1948** Posted **Dec 24, 2010, 2:10 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by JET

facetious

It took me a few years to find this, and many misspellings: on the post page there is a spell icon above the smilies that takes you to iespell.com
you can download an icon for your toolbar to spellcheck when on forums. Very handy, when I used it for 'fescious', one of the suggested words was 'fascias', seems appropriate for a development forum.

I use Mozilla Firefox as my web-browser which has a spell-check function built in (under the Tools - Options - General). I gave up on Internet Explorer a few years ago but maybe it has a similar feature.

alps · #**1949** Posted **Dec 25, 2010, 1:48 AM**

That Agricola office building is shaping up nicely, though the siding is pretty bland. Thanks for the pics DJ, and happy holidays everyone!

I just came across this ad on Kijiji for a new building on Quinpool:

It would be nice to have the whole lot developed, but this looks decent. I like that it's right up to the corner.

kph06 · #**1950** Posted **Dec 25, 2010, 4:00 AM**

I'm surprised there's room for anything there, it's a tight parking lot as is.

Jonovision · #**1951** Posted **Dec 25, 2010, 5:00 PM**

The last thing Quinpool needs is a drive through cafe. The building looks decent, but it should fill the whole lot and not have a drive through.

miesh111 · #**1952** Posted **Jan 4, 2011, 6:29 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by kph06

There is a proposal for a Mr. Lube in the Home Depot on Lacewood parking lot.

Case 16678

Am I the only one who is fundamentally against a Mr. Lube opening up here, in the current proposed design anyway? That whole area has a bunch of residential and who the hell wants to stare out at a bright sign reading "Mr. Lube" every night?

JET · #**1953** Posted **Jan 4, 2011, 7:44 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by miesh111

Am I the only one who is fundamentally against a Mr. Lube opening up here, in the current proposed design anyway? That whole area has a bunch of residential and who the hell wants to stare out at a bright sign reading "Mr. Lube" every night?

Are you thinking that the bright Mr. Lube sign might outshine the Homer's sign?

Keith P. · #**1954** Posted **Jan 4, 2011, 10:59 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by JET

Are you thinking that the bright Mr. Lube sign might outshine the Homer's sign?

No, I think the worry is more about the Smitty's and Irving signage.

ScovaNotian · #**1955** Posted **Jan 5, 2011, 4:34 PM**

I do think that so much more could have been made of the entire area. I was disappointed when the Irving went in, and Mr Lube is not going to make it any better. There is a large number of people living in the area, and it could have become a bit of a town centre that people can walk over to and spend time at. The Starbucks is frequented heavily by people from the neighbourhood, but it's too little.

someone123 · #**1956** Posted **Jan 5, 2011, 8:57 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by ScovaNotian

I do think that so much more could have been made of the entire area. I was disappointed when the Irving went in, and Mr Lube is not going to make it any better. There is a large number of people living in the area, and it could have become a bit of a town centre that people can walk over to and spend time at. The Starbucks is frequented heavily by people from the neighbourhood, but it's too little.

It is lowest-common-denominator development dictated by companies interested in making money, not constructing functional parts of the city. That sort of planning is the city's job but they seem to mostly be asleep at the switch, silent on many important issues while focusing on misguided counterproductive policies to do things like limit density.

Suburban development in Halifax is so far behind cities like Vancouver it's not funny.

macgregor · #**1957** Posted **Jan 5, 2011, 10:09 PM**

The former Dairy Queen on Spring Garden & South Park has a "For Lease" sign in the window now.

Too bad.

someone123 · #**1958** Posted **Jan 5, 2011, 10:17 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by macgregor

The former Dairy Queen on Spring Garden & South Park has a "For Lease" sign in the window now.

Too bad.

That whole corner should be redeveloped. It sounded like that was a possibility at one point with somebody announcing plans for the location next door but the lack of news and the "for lease" sign suggest otherwise.

Sometimes I wonder how much areas like Spring Garden Road are held back just because of old landlords who have little interest in doing anything but collecting rent. The empty house by HMV for example makes me think that the owner is just sitting around waiting for somebody to hand over some money, if they are even aware of the property at all. It's hard to believe that the land wouldn't be better-used in some other way.

JustinMacD · #**1959** Posted **Jan 6, 2011, 1:09 AM**

It's probably the most visible street corner in Atlantic Canada... and we have an abandoned DQ with no plans for redevelopment. Awesome.

Keith P. · #**1960** Posted **Jan 6, 2011, 1:44 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by someone123

That whole corner should be redeveloped. It sounded like that was a possibility at one point with somebody announcing plans for the location next door but the lack of news and the "for lease" sign suggest otherwise.

Sometimes I wonder how much areas like Spring Garden Road are held back just because of old landlords who have little interest in doing anything but collecting rent. The empty house by HMV for example makes me think that the owner is just sitting around waiting for somebody to hand over some money, if they are even aware of the property at all. It's hard to believe that the land wouldn't be better-used in some other way.

In fairness, that corner is owned by a couple named Kleronomos, who are the Greek family who ran (or maybe still run) the Lakonia olive oil import business that was or still is located in that building. They own a couple of other properties around town but are not huge landlords. I think they are just an older Greek couple who are trying to live out their lives comfortably.

The corner building lot is not all that large and for a development of any size a few adjacent parcels would have to be acquired and consolidated. Not that it couldn't be done, but it would take some deep pockets and a lot of effort to convince the owners to sell.