Profit site or eco-paradise?
Paula Simons
Edmonton Journal
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Principle versus profit. Idealism versus pragmatism. Tuesday, Edmonton City Council must choose from among five different scenarios for the old City Centre Airport lands. It must decide what kind of Blatchford it wants to build.
"The balance is, how green do you want to be? And how much money do you want to make? That's the tension we're facing," says Bev Esslinger, councillor for Ward 2. "Where do we go from here?" Esslinger and Mark Hall, executive director of the
Blatchford project, have invited me to the top of the old air traffic control tower, overlooking the 217-hectare site, to discuss the question. From up here, the views are great. The vision of the future is more murky...
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