The former Bloomfield Centre site in North End Halifax is up for sale, but the real estate firm tasked with marketing the property is billing it as something else entirely: the “streetcar district.” A Cushman Wakefield sign went up at the site this week and a website appears to have gone live last week at...
This domain name could be yours! Examineradio, episode #62
This week we speak with community activist Jayde Tynes about the Bridging Bus project. The Bridging Bus aims to help develop community projects throughout the city and to bring the organizers to Washington, DC, to experience grassroots organizing firsthand. Also, LocalXPress gets a reboot, Aidan Cromwell’s murder conviction is overturned and Linda Mosher grabs anything not nailed […]
Vacant money pit: the Bloomfield School redevelopment is in costly holding pattern as critics charge public consultation was lacking
by Hilary Beaumont It’s been seven months since Housing Nova Scotia held a sticky note consultation at the former Bloomfield school, two years since the province won the RFP for the site and 10 years since citizen group Imagine Bloomfield formed to push for a “dynamic neighbourhood hub” on the property. And there the old...