• City Hall
  • Province House
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Investigation
  • Journalism
  • Commentary
  • @Tim_Bousquet
  • Log In

Halifax Examiner

An independent, adversarial news site in Halifax, NS

  • Home
  • About
    • Terms and Conditions
    • Commenting policy
  • Archives
  • Contact us
  • Subscribe to the Halifax Examiner
  • Manage your account

City council, the developer, and the deal that isn’t quite

APL promises 10 affordable housing units in exchange for being allowed to add five storeys to its Willow Tree project. Who benefits? Hint: not the city...

March 25, 2018 By Stephen Kimber

Halifax City Council can be — even at its best of times — confusing, contradictory, confounding. Last week, council was not, even by its own modest standards, at its best. Councillors were considering again/still/always a proposal from APL, an Armoyan development company, to erect a commercial-residential tower at the corner of Robie Street and Quinpool...

This content is for subscribers only.
Log In Subscribe

Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Featured, Subscribers only Tagged With: APL Properties, Centre Plan, Councillor Sam Austin, councillor Shawn Cleary, Councillor Tim Outhit, Halifax city council, Jacob Boon, Joaquim Stroink, Robie and Quinpool tower, Willow Tree Tower

About the Halifax Examiner

Examiner folk The Halifax Examiner was founded by investigative reporter Tim Bousquet, and now includes a growing collection of writers, contributors, and staff. Left to right: Joan Baxter, Stephen Kimber, Linda Pannozzo, Erica Butler, Jennifer Henderson, Iris the Amazing, Tim Bousquet, Evelyn C. White, El Jones, Philip Moscovitz More about the Examiner.

DEAD WRONG

A botched police investigation and a probable wrongful conviction shed light on the murders of dozens of women in Nova Scotia.

This is a multi-part series still in publication. Click here to go to the DEAD WRONG home page.

Follow @HfxExaminer
Follow @Tim_Bousquet Follow @russellgragg Follow @HabitatRadio Follow @tempaleigh

Sign up for email notification

Sign up to receive email notification of new posts on the Halifax Examiner. Note: signing up for email notification of new posts is NOT subscribing to the Halifax Examiner. To subscribe, click here.

Recent posts

  • By Any Other Name: Nova Scotia’s Department of Lands and Forestry just made “Clearcuts” disappear February 16, 2019
  • Irving Shipbuilding accused of “heavy handed” treatment of subcontractor February 15, 2019
  • Not feeling the love February 14, 2019
  • “Paving the streets with gold”: Why Halifax council turned down a look into raising standards for sidewalk snow-clearing February 14, 2019
  • Why did the McNeil government subsidize my trip to Maine? February 13, 2019

Commenting policy

All comments on the Halifax Examiner are subject to our commenting policy. You can view our commenting policy here.

Copyright © 2019