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Old Posted May 23, 2009, 2:32 AM
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They have a small stone wall going up along the sidewalk to.

Also, the reason this progressed so slowly is because the guy paid everything with CASH no financing. As he got the money he paid to get something done.
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Old Posted Jun 27, 2009, 2:58 AM
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Old Posted Jun 27, 2009, 3:19 AM
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I think that this one looks nice now that it's done. It will go good with the Barrington and that other 7 story building that went up recently.
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Old Posted Jun 27, 2009, 3:42 AM
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Old Posted Jun 27, 2009, 3:09 PM
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It actually doesn't look as bad as I thought it would...I like the colours, too many drab monochrome buildings going up these days.
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Old Posted Jun 27, 2009, 5:03 PM
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my agent\Friend said taking people into to see units is almost embarrassing and one couple commented that it reminded them of a collage dorm inside
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Old Posted Jun 27, 2009, 6:22 PM
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Yeah, I'm glad I didn't buy there. Between the forever construction, the amateur contracting work, and the unfortunate location after the sewage plant exploded, I would have regretted the decision. And since the banner is still up, I take it that they either are still not sold out or that the guy in charge of taking down the banner is the same guy who was in charge of putting up the siding.
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Old Posted Jun 27, 2009, 7:23 PM
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And since the banner is still up, I take it that they either are still not sold out or that the guy in charge of taking down the banner is the same guy who was in charge of putting up the siding.

I think you are right, they are not sold out....In fact on Page 38 of the coast in the top left hand corner of the page there is a small add asking?

why pay rent?

and then uses the selling point,
that the development is Eco-friendly. Funny, it doesn't actually mention the name spice anywhere
and the picture is a little hard to recognize,
due to the angle,
but it's defiantly Spice....there is a video tour at HEALTHFULHOMES.CA...."your green choice in real estate"
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Old Posted Jun 27, 2009, 8:00 PM
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Between the forever construction, the amateur contracting work, and the unfortunate location after the sewage plant exploded, I would have regretted the decision.
Holy Mackerel. I drove over the Cogswell Interchange the other day from Barrington to Upper Water and past the plant. I was headed north with my window down (open window facing away from the water)... and the smell was overwhelming. I mean seriously overwhelming. And that's zipping along at 60 K/hr. Unreal. I can't imagine what it must smell like standing still outside the entrance of the Casino. I've lived in Halifax most of my life and it's never smelled anything like that. I imagine it's because all of the sewage now funnels down to the one outfall. What a disaster.

p.s. I looked at Spice too... back before they even started construction. It was an amazing deal for that location... so close to downtown. Like you, I'm glad I didn't end up there!!!
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Old Posted Jun 28, 2009, 12:53 AM
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Eh, it gets pretty bad in summer even when the plant is running properly. When I was working at Scotia Square, the bus route I was on took me past the plant every day. The smell didn't go away until the other side of the interchange.

Right in the middle of our proposed business district. Yaaaaaay.
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Old Posted Jun 28, 2009, 1:44 AM
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Eh, it gets pretty bad in summer even when the plant is running properly. When I was working at Scotia Square, the bus route I was on took me past the plant every day. The smell didn't go away until the other side of the interchange.

Right in the middle of our proposed business district. Yaaaaaay.
I used to walk past the front of the plant every day on my way to work when it was operational last summer and I would rarely smell anything... or I would smell just a subtle smell coming up form the manhole covers. In fact... you'd sometimes smell that all over the entire downtown and south end. But I would often smell it when others would not. The smell that's present now is a whole other world. It's 100X worse. Unreal.
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Old Posted Jun 29, 2009, 1:21 AM
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I never noticed any smell when it was operating apart from the usual summer smell when you pass over a manhole cover, but that's present throughout the city. Now though that it's failed and there is just the one outfall.... well let's just say I don't envy smokers popping out at the Casino!
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Old Posted Jun 29, 2009, 11:24 AM
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It exploded/failed? You mean that brand new one in the ill-advised location that was getting put together around 2005-2007? So the city got HOW much work out of that thing before it failed?

OMG, what a FUBAR situation. All that money, and it's not working.
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Old Posted Jun 29, 2009, 5:55 PM
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^ Nilan, check out the coast website,
and in the center of the page it say's hot summer guide,
under that it has a picture of a native person and a headline "include us in climate...."....scroll down and the very first article underneith that, writen by the regrettible Tim Bousque,
check it out...it is titled "Peter Kelly wears the sewage disaster"....he does a nice job at summing up the hole farce, and I guess the only time when me and Tim agree is when we are Kelly Bashing...it's worth reading
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Old Posted Jun 29, 2009, 5:59 PM
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That sewage plant is nothing now compared to when you drive down the north end of barrington, before the mckay bridge, where they put that huge underground sewage tank in back in the 60's maybe? It reeks there on a bad day.
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Old Posted Jun 29, 2009, 7:03 PM
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That sewage plant is nothing now compared to when you drive down the north end of barrington, before the mckay bridge, where they put that huge underground sewage tank in back in the 60's maybe? It reeks there on a bad day.
Sorry... I know we're all way off topic... but where is that exactly? I live in the Hydrostone and regularly run down Novalea to Seaview Lookoff Park and back along Barrington and I've never noticed any smells along that route at least.
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Old Posted Jun 29, 2009, 7:24 PM
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I'm not surprised you wouldn't notice it... its cleverly disguised as a house! Its the house brown with red trim on the bottom of Duffus on the left if your are facing the harbour. You can even see a steel crane rail poking out the back.

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I'm not surprised you wouldn't notice it... its cleverly disguised as a house! I believe its the red? one on the bottom of Duffus on the left if your are facing the harbour. You can even see a steel crane rail poking out the side.
Well they've certainly diguised this one better than the one at Barrington and Inglis (that thing is blatantly obvious).

I know when they were building the house a few years back it smelled to drive by especially in summer but I dont use the road much anymore so I dont know what its like anymore.

Its at the intersection with the blind corner/crest next to the public housing.
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Old Posted Jun 29, 2009, 10:59 PM
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I'm not surprised you wouldn't notice it... its cleverly disguised as a house! I believe its the red? one on the bottom of Duffus on the left if your are facing the harbour. You can even see a steel crane rail poking out the side.
Interesting. I run by there all the time on my little 5K jaunts. I'll look more closely next time (which would be tomorrow night actually).
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Old Posted Jun 30, 2009, 1:21 AM
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Based on the info in the Coast article it is not the retaining pools, tanks or buildings that stink so much as the adjacent CSOs, or Combine Sewage Overflows that are supposed to release the excess on a really rainy day. Now they are pumping unfiltered crud into the harbour.

It seems that the CSOs don't have super long pipes going out under the harbour (anymore), and there are just 9 outflows now, and they are all dumping closer to shore then the old "system" of pipes.
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