Site remediation at the Queen’s Marque site is expected to cost $2 million — more than twice the $950,000 budgeted for it. The entire cost will covered by the provincial government. In 2010, the Waterfront Development Corporation announced that it had reached an agreement with the Armour Group for development of the Queen’s Landing site....
Halifax Armageddon: Morning File, Tuesday, June 13, 2017
News 1. Downtown, the waterfront, and Armageddon Canada Day is of course a very big deal this year, so I was wondering what is going on. Unfortunately, the city’s Canada Day website is confusing: on the Events page, it lists the Tattoo as the one and only community event on Canada Day: Thinking that can’t be […]
There goes the neighbourhood: Queen’s Marque construction is hitting nearby businesses hard
Recognizing the problem, Waterfront Development is spending big money to help out the Murphy's businesses, and the city is being asked to pitch in with even more financial help. Meanwhile, however, the crown corporation is ignoring the plight of a business right across the street from the construction zone.
The proliferation of bulldozers, cranes, and work crews punching new towers into the Halifax skyline has also raised a controversial question at ground level: should businesses whose sales are hurt by the construction receive compensation from the developer and/or the public purse? The question gets even stickier when government is an investor — as it is...