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Old Posted Jun 14, 2020, 12:49 AM
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^It's designated HR-1 under the Centre Plan which is high order residential. Personally I always thought it would of made a nice spot for the new HRP headquarters.
Right in the middle of Black people living in public housing !!!!
What message would that send ? Give your head a shake.
Put the police station in Bedford or Woodside, the land is cheaper and good access to 100 series highways.. The existing site must be worth at least $20 million.
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Old Posted Jun 14, 2020, 3:40 AM
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Right in the middle of Black people living in public housing !!!!
What message would that send ? Give your head a shake.
Put the police station in Bedford or Woodside, the land is cheaper and good access to 100 series highways.. The existing site must be worth at least $20 million.
I believe that police headquarters should be located centrally. It doesn't have to be downtown but it should be located near the law courts with easy access to major thoroughfares.

Brunswick Street is close to the law courts, just outside of downtown, and has easy access to both bridges and other thoroughfares. It's also roughly the same size lot as the existing HQ. The site is also locate at the edge of a residential area so impacts there are minimized. The land to the immediate west is commercial, the south is churches, the north is parkland, and the east is a narrow strip of residential, churches, and Ocean Towers.

The fact that Uniacke Square is located nearby is not a factor. The community already has a police office and a lot of the police already use the local streets to get to the existing HQ which is only a few blocks south.

Any site on the Peninsula is going to have an impact on residential areas. St Pats - A happens to be have a relatively small impact on residential. Only a site at Cogswell, the Commons, or Kempt Road could achieve a better residential buffer.

Point is moot anyways. The site is now in private hands and recent events have likely put a hold on planning for new police headquarters.
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Old Posted Jun 15, 2020, 6:49 PM
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This has to be one of the worst projects out there right now. It's really terrible. And unfortunately, this is the same developer HRM just closed on St. Pats A with.
This is being developed by Jono Developments (Nahas and Metlege). St. Pat's was sold to Banc Developments (same people behind the Sister Sites on Clyde)
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This is being developed by Jono Developments (Nahas and Metlege). St. Pat's was sold to Banc Developments (same people behind the Sister Sites on Clyde)
St. Pat's site (Quinpool) was sold to Banc, but St. Patrick's-Alexandra (Brunswick St.) was sold to Jono.
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Crane base going in soon?


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It's definitely a crane base. Its pretty close to Cogswell Street at the upper end of the lot near Staples.


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The first of 2 crane bases was installed yesterday.
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First crane going up today.
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This crane is visible in the skyline too. I guess it's not yet at full height, because it looks shorter than the nearby hotel buildings even though I think this has a few more floors of height:


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A second crane is going up at this site.


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Drove by this morning around 9 am. Emergency crews were on site. Fire, police & ambulance. Always turns my stomach when I see stuff like that. Hoping for the best for whoever needed the emergency response...
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Drove by this morning around 9 am. Emergency crews were on site. Fire, police & ambulance. Always turns my stomach when I see stuff like that. Hoping for the best for whoever needed the emergency response...
Always scary news. Hoping for the best as well, as per Halifax Fire News on Twitter: 8:50am 3 Engine (Halifax) paged for an industrial accident
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I’ve been meaning to mention one thing about this site that I’m looking forward to,...street frontage on Brunswick. If you recall the former church was essentially on a hill with a 6 foot retaining wall running along Brunswick.

The excavation of the hill and underground parking will create a new look for this intersection. I assume that they are planning ground floor commercial. And the redevelopment of the trademart building across the street will really change the feel.
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The excavation of the hill and underground parking will create a new look for this intersection. I assume that they are planning ground floor commercial. And the redevelopment of the trademart building across the street will really change the feel.
This area is more significant than usual because it ties Gottingen in with the rest of downtown and the Cogswell lands. In the not too distant future something like Buddy Daye St will be the effective northern end of downtown, while in the early 2000's the mixed use commercial core petered out around the mess that is/was the urban renewal development around Cogswell.

Plus the bend in Brunswick Street at Cogswell makes this intersection a bit more interesting. Halifax has a lot of unusual intersections that could add visual interest but don't because of empty lots or buildings that are designed in a way that's indifferent to the physical site they're on. For example a building on an unusually-shaped site with a square footprint and a bunch of unused land or plinth-style development on a site that is not flat.
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I've been keeping weekly updates on this project. The link embedded below is the quick access to those photos.


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Saw some crane sections piled up on the edge of the site today.
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A few sections were up today, but no sign of a mobile crane.
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