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Western Region Community Council June 22, 2009:

8.1.1 Case 01178: Development Agreement - Glen Baker Drive, Herring Cove
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Maple company started as hobby, became a way of life

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By Yvette d’Entremont – The Weekly News
With six years of storefront operation behind them, Acadian Maple Products in Upper Tantallon moves next month to a new, much larger space to keep up with an ever-increasing demand for its products.
But the business won’t be moving too far. Located just metres behind its current building on Peggy’s Cove Road, the new 6,000-square-foot facility will be seven times larger. In addition to providing more retail, storage and packaging space, it will easily handle large bus and school tours interested in agri-tourism.
“One of the reasons for the expansion was because we’re on the busiest tourist road in Nova Scotia, we were getting many requests for bus tours, and this building was too small to handle it,” said Acadian Maple Products owner Brian Allaway.
“We also have a packaging facility in the Wentworth Valley and decided to build a new building to include the packaging line and distribution.We’re trying to look 10 years down the road.”
The new facility is being constructed in a way that ensures it will heat and cool more efficiently. It includes a much larger retail shop, a tank room for the maple syrup, large storage areas, office space, and a shipping and receiving area.
It was also designed to accommodate bus tours and anyone interested in learning more about the maple industry. Large windows allow visitors a glimpse into the inner workings of the facility.
“People can come in and see what’s happening in our boiling room. That day we could be boiling, making fudge, making maple butter, or any number of things that we do,” Allaway said.
“Not just bus tours, but school groups, family reunions, any large group that would like a tour of the facility and a presentation on the maple industry. We finally have a place we can do that.”
What started as a hobby for Allaway 27 years ago has become a way of life. His family had a few maple trees in the backyard, made a little too much maple syrup for its own consumption, and began selling some of the surplus to a local store owner.
“He asked for more. We started making more. Then we had to start purchasing to keep up with the demand,” he recalled.
The family eventually built its own sugar camp in the Wentworth Valley, and quickly discovered their biggest challenge was that they never seemed to have enough maple syrup.
“We decided to put our energy into marketing. Now we’re federally licensed as a maple producer, we can buy from any farmer and sell around the world,” Allaway said, noting some producers now sell their entire crop to Acadian Maple Products, ensuring a steady supply for the company.
When his son William graduated from university, he put his energies into expanding the family business. They purchased the Peggy’s Cove Road property six years ago, and business has grown dramatically ever since.
Acadian Maple’s product line ranges from syrups to fresh fudge, juices, jams and preserves, dips and spices, maple sugar and butter, and even maple wine. The company exports maple syrup and products around the world, including Ireland, Switzerland, Spain and Mexico.
Acadian Maple Products will move all of its operations from the Wentworth Valley to the new Upper Tantallon facility and will be hiring more people locally.
The building that currently houses Acadian Maple Products will be moved.
“Someone will be taking it. We didn’t want to tear it down unless we had to, as a last resort,” Allaway said.
The new facility is expected to open its doors the first week of August.
For more information about Acadian Maple Products, visit the company’s web site, www.acadianmaple.com.


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Sackville update. Photo by me yesterday;

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Some Construction updates from Sackville;

New Ultramar at the corner of Glendale and Cobequid. The Subway was recently moved to the adjacent building:



Not sure if this is demolition or addition but the Petro-Can strip mall at the corner of Glendale and Beaverbank:



The Service Nova Scotia building on Sackville Drive is almost complete, theres about six small strip malls going up, the new MacDonalds looks tacky, and the gas station at Sackville Cross Rd stoplight was demolished.
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How many towns are there across Canada, with 35,000 people or more who go there and not 1 walmart, or place where you can buy mens jeans?
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How many towns are there across Canada, with 35,000 people or more who go there and not 1 walmart, or place where you can buy mens jeans?
Are you implying you can only purchase womens jeans?
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Why don't you just go to Bedford's Wal-Mart? We never wanted one anyways.
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Are you implying you can only purchase womens jeans?
Yes.

And to get to the bedford walmart, takes me 30 minutes by bus, I need to take 2 to get here, and I'm in millwood area.
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Yes.

And to get to the bedford walmart, takes me 30 minutes by bus, I need to take 2 to get here, and I'm in millwood area.
Same here.

I live in Eaglewood and to get there by bus i have to walk to the bus stop (5 mins) take the 66 to Cobequid (10 minutes) then take the 88 to Wal-Mart.
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Same deal with Dartmouth, the Wal-Mart used to be very convenient at Penhorn with a major bus terminal, DC still is a pain in the ass to get to by bus.
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Sucks.
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Yah, Digital, that must suck having to were chick jeans around!!!....
are they low rise jeans?!!!....
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Sucks.
Dig...you need to get your ass a-smokin' hot-shugah' mama....to cart your ass around!!!.....i would apply...but ya' know..I got mah, bean's and bacon, so I'm in'eligble...
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Lmao. Yeah, a hot 35 year old or so with no kids would be good.
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Case 01282

A propsed change to an previously approved building for Wyatt Road out here in Bedford in Mill Cove.

EDIT: Just a note I can't say for sure if its this lot or its neighbour but there has been a lot of excavation work occuring in the area.

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Out here in Bedford I can say that lately its been a dead zone for construction considering how many people live here.

The bicycle lanes and repaving on the Bedford Highway are still underway, the Ravines is very slowly coming along, Southgate Village still has the sign up but no construction has commenced yet, Dockside sales are going along very slowly, and the only other thing happening is the demolition of the former Canadian Tire gas bar in Sunnyside.
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Field of dreams
Halifax and Dartmouth have Commons. Now Beaver Bank wants one
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By Yvette d’Entremont – The Weekly News
Bonnie Ryan is seeking some common ground in Beaver Bank to accompany a much-anticipated bike park.
The community volunteer is chairwoman of the Beaver Bank Commons Development Association, a group that formed last November.
“The reason we formed was that at the (annual) town hall meeting, it was brought up that kids would like to have a bike park,” Ryan said.
“We formed this association to work on it, and we’re happy to say the bike park is in the works now.”
The bike park will be put on a six-acre parcel of underused land near the Beaver Bank ball fields. Ryan said the bike park initiative was kick-started by former councillor Krista Snow, who provided $3,000 in city funds to pay for dirt.
Current Coun. Barry Dalrymple has since given another $5,000 that will ensure the project is completed. Ryan said her group has recently worked on the project with HRM bike park consultant Adam Shore.
She hopes the bike park will be completed before school starts in September.
“Adam Shore had a meeting with the kids on July 15, and now he’ll go back to HRM designers, say what they want here, and then the project will sit in the queue,” Ryan said.
“Now we have the skateboard park, then a bike park, and we’d really like to do a walking trail all along the perimeter of the field so you can go there with your dog, your two-year-old and your eight-year-old, and everyone will have something to do.”
With an onsite playground, the skateboard park and the bike park, Ryan said a designated recreation area near the Beaver Bank Kinsac Community Centre would benefit families throughout the community. Her group would like the Beaver Bank ball fields land to be officially renamed the Beaver Bank Commons.
In addition to a walking trail along the perimeter of the bike park, future plans include the installation of picnic tables near the playground, a seasonal ice cream stand to serve those using the Commons, and the resolution of flooding problems on the ball fields.
Ryan said one of the many advantages of the location is that it is fairly open and visible from the road.
“It’s flat land, there’s not a lot to it, and there are trees there for kids to get to the shade so they’re not exposed to sun all the time,” she said.
“We’re trying to have as many uses as we can, because the more it’s used, the more money HRM will put in. It will be great. The numbers in Beaver Bank are going up, up and up, and we need these sorts of things for our community.”


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Good news for the Lower Sackville/Bedford are since even though HRM has mentioned a desperate need for community space in Bedford they haven't bothered with a plan yet. Also the road to get to this is having stoplights installed right now (intersection with Glendale Ave);

New church bucks trend
While other places of worship struggle, Sackville Baptists open state-of-the-art facility
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By Yvette d’Entremont – The Weekly News

Last Sunday marked a milestone for a local church bucking a trend by steadily increasing its population at a time when many churches are struggling to stay afloat.
StoneRidge Fellowship (formerly Temple Baptist Church) officially opened the doors to its new, state-of-the-art facility on Sept. 13. Located on Temple Terrace just off Glendale Avenue, the 35,000 sq. ft. nondescript white building could easily be mistaken for a school or a medical clinic from the outside.
For more than six years, the congregation has been actively raising funds for construction of the new building to house its ever-increasing population. The church purchased 54 acres on Temple Terrace and has so far developed 13 acres.
After selling its former church site at 1000 Sackville Dr. to a carpentry trade school, church members spent the last eight months packing the Bedford Place Mall for Sunday worship services.
Late last week the Temple Terrace site was a beehive of activity as dozens of workers in hard hats completed the finishing touches to ensure the new building could open in time for a ribbon cutting and the first Sunday service at the new building. A grand opening is planned for Oct. 25.
“Our growth is an anomaly, but I think there are two basic things that cause growth. The message has not changed, the message of Christ, his death, and his resurrection,” explained Lead Pastor Les Somers. “We don’t dabble with that, water it down or change it. But we have actively taken steps to allow the message of Christ to be relevant today.”
One of the ways to ensure the church remains relevant, Somers said, is to embrace and make use of high tech, modern media options to reach out and help spread the message of Jesus Christ. The new facility includes two rooms devoted to wires, sound boards, blinking lights and other technological wonders that ensure the church’s sound and video systems operate optimally.
StoneRidge broadcasts a recorded version of its Sunday services via the Internet each week. It also streams a Sunday service live to its satellite site in Hubbards. Somers said the goal is to expand and offer four additional satellite sites in HRM.
“We have not stagnated. We’re not in the 1900s or the 1960s, we are in the 21st century and we have kept up with that,” Somers said. “The other, second important aspect of the growth of this church is the people are passionate about what they believe and they show it in the community. They’re not just going to church on Sunday; it’s a lifestyle, not just an add on.”
The opening of the new, 35,000 sq. ft. building marks the completion of the first phase of StoneRidge’s growth. The two-storey facility is bright and open, with many large windows and a vast parking lot to accommodate the hundreds of worshippers who’ll attend the two morning services.
The new building includes offices, a boardroom, a hospitality area with kitchen facilities, a first-aid room, a library resource centre and two small auditoriums that seat 100 and 150 people. Phase one also includes a large (temporary) worship space capable of holding more than 500 people. When phase two is completed, that worship space will be devoted to the church’s youth programs.
The foundation is already set for the second phase, which includes a 1,500 seat adjoining auditorium that will eventually serve as the church’s primary meeting space and will have a footprint of 35,000 square feet.
When constructed, that auditorium will be larger than the Rebecca Cohn in Halifax. When not in use by the church, it will be available to the larger community, something Somers believes will help address a lack of performance space in northwest HRM. All the space in the new facility can be rented by the community when the space is not being used by StoneRidge.
The passion with which StoneRidge embraces its young children and youth is evident in the building’s design. Bright rooms downstairs will hold cribs for infants, a preschool, and Sunday programs for elementary school- aged children. All children will be registered electronically for safety purposes.
“We’re very passionate about children and about teenagers. Any church that does not address the family, the issue of raising children with moral training and spiritual upbringing, that church will not survive,” Somers said. “They are the church of the future and the church of now, so we never forget the church is never one generation away from death.”
More information about StoneRidge Fellowship can be found online at stoneridgefellowship.com.


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Burnside business campus unveiled
Dartmouth project to include six three-storey buildings
By BRUCE ERSKINE Business Reporter
Fri. Sep 18 - 4:46 AM


An artist’s rendition of the Wright & Burnside Business Campus site in Dartmouth, which is expected to take five to seven years to complete.





The site of a former municipal water tower in Burnside is being transformed into the region’s first planned business campus.

"This is the first true business campus east of Montreal and we have a truly great setting here for tenants," said Bill Hardman, president of The Hardman Group, in describing the Wright & Burnside Business Campus his Halifax-based firm is developing.

The $50-million to $70-million project, which is expected to begin construction next year, is being built on a 6.4-hectare hill at the corner of Wright Avenue and Burnside Drive, overlooking the Bedford Basin.

Mr. Hardman said the campus will include six three-storey office buildings with 400,000 square feet of office space and 50,000 square feet of commercial space, surrounded by a courtyard the size of two football fields. It will also feature 500 above-ground parking spaces and 400 underground spaces.

"It’s not a building that is sitting in a parking lot with just asphalt around it," he said of the campus concept, which will be built to LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) or equivalent standards.

"It needs to have the right environment."

Mr. Hardman said the project, which he estimated would take five to seven years to complete, will appeal to tenants who want larger floor spaces, lots of parking and access to amenities and transit.

"I think they will be from the insurance field to the financial field," he said. "We’re looking for tenants who are anywhere from 5,000 square feet up to 90,000 square feet."

Mr. Hardman said the recession here hasn’t hit the regional commercial real estate market to the same extent it has elsewhere in Canada.

"You have pretty much market-driven products in the office sector and that’s what this will be," he said. "We’re not going to start the first building without knowing that we have it reasonably pre-leased."

Bob Mussett, senior vice-president with CB Richard Ellis Inc., which is leading the project’s leasing campaign, said Atlantic Canada’s entire economy has weathered the recession better than other parts of the country.

"The overall economy in Atlantic Canada, when you compare it to other regions in the country, has done remarkably well for the last year, not that it hasn’t been affected," he said. "But when you look at job losses and the impact on commercial real estate, it hasn’t been affected to the degree it has in other regions."

Mr. Mussett agreed with Mr. Hardman that a lack of over-building has helped the local commercial real estate market through the recession.

"In most instances, the market is quite balanced and that’s a great way to finish a recession and go, hopefully, into the next upswing," he said.

Commercial real estate sales are down nationally due to factors like credit shortages, but Mr. Mussett said leasing is a regional issue.

"You can’t draw the same picture across the country," he said, noting that Calgary’s commercial real estate vacancy rate has jumped from half of one per cent to 12 per cent.

"Here the leasing has held up reasonably well."

Mr. Mussett said the commercial vacancy rate in downtown Halifax, including sub-lease space, is 6.5 per cent, while the overall commercial vacancy rate in HRM is about four per cent.

"That’s a pretty good figure," he said, adding that the business campus should attract a lot of attention.

"There’s great benefits both for the employee and the employer: ease of access, free parking, the environment, the ability to access walking trails and shopping and other services," he said. "It’s really got all of those things wrapped into one."

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