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[macgregor]

Originally Posted by fenwick16

I am not sure if that is the location that macgregor described. I thought that it would be this lot - http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=3065+Ro...P-YmHwsWy7ch1Q that macgregor described in his post below. (not the 19 storey tower at 3065 Robie Street)

That's the lot (2859 Robie, instead of 3065 Robie). I thought plans/renders for these two sites were put up at the same time. But maybe that site was only being talked about as a good opportunity.

[worldlyhaligonian]

[QUOTE=Keith P.;5759721]

Originally Posted by haligonia

Unsustainable? What does that even mean? It is rapidly becoming the most overused term in urban circles. A building like this with a C-store, a dry cleaner and a women's gym in the ground level doesn't make anything more "sustainable".

Love it Keith, you tell it like it is most of the time.

Nothing is "sustainable", things are more or less "unsustainable" but really we are splitting hairs here when it comes to talking about actual development or consumer behavior.

I think this word is getting thrown around wayyy too much. For example, I'm in favour of biking for sure and urban design that is effective (unlike the stupid painted lines next to highways in Halifax)... but is it sustainable per se?

They still have to mine metal, go through a manufacturing process (likely in a third world country with much more relaxed environmental laws), then it has to be shipped to market where it is purchased by the end user. More innovations that could have "sustainable" outcomes come from the automotive industry.

[Tincture]

http://news.webshots.com/photo/29273...06861973yuKvsp


11 / 07 / 2012

[HaliStreaks]

I was asked a question by a friend who lives in the area, as Northwest Arm Dr. is a bit of a jaunt out of the way by metro transit for me. Does anyone know what's going on at the top of Cowie Hill Road across from the Halifax Water building? He told me they've blasted and cleared most of the area between Cowie Hill Rd. and Northwest Arm Drive and that there are now foundations going in.

[kph06]

That's a new building for Halifax Water operations and an extension of Cowie Hill Rd. Eventually the subdivision proposed for there years ago will start up.

[-Harlington-]

Article about the plans for the agricola NSCL: http://thechronicleherald.ca/busines...w-liquor-store

[Northend Nerd]

Lots going on in the North End!

I noticed today that the empty lot at the corner of Isleville and Almon had a sign for re-development today. It doesn't seem that the case has made its way to the HRM site yet.







Demolition has also begun on the used car dealership on Almon, beside the Shoppers and Post office.

[Wishblade]

200 Jazz jobs moving from London, Ont. to Halifax

Jazz Aviation LP is moving 200 jobs from London, Ontario to Halifax.

The move will happen by next summer and will consolidate the airline's heavy maintenance operations at the Halifax Stanfield International Airport.

The company is owned by Halifax-based Chorus Aviation Inc.

Workers in Ontario, 150 unionized workers and 50 managers, will be given the option to relocate, Jazz spokeswoman Manon Stuart confirmed.

Moving the positions will allow Jazz — under the Air Canada Express brand — to be more efficient and acquire new planes, Stuart said.

the rest here: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-s...move-jazz.html

[someone123]

Originally Posted by Northend Nerd

I noticed today that the empty lot at the corner of Isleville and Almon had a sign for re-development today. It doesn't seem that the case has made its way to the HRM site yet.

The addresses are not quite the same, but I think it's this one: http://halifax.ca/planning/Case17511Details.html

Looks like a nice medium-sized development. I think the North End is really going to come into its own in a few years.

[halifaxboyns]

Originally Posted by someone123

The addresses are not quite the same, but I think it's this one: http://halifax.ca/planning/Case17511Details.html

Looks like a nice medium-sized development. I think the North End is really going to come into its own in a few years.

I don't think that's the right application. I think this is a different one, because MN isn't the applicant for 17511.

[someone123]

Originally Posted by halifaxboyns

I don't think that's the right application. I think this is a different one, because MN isn't the applicant for 17511.

Yeah, looks like the case numbers are different too. Bilby/Isleville/Almon are all around the same block though -- so I guess there will be two buildings more or less right next to each other then? Q Lofts and St. Joseph's are also pretty close by.

[Northend Nerd]

Originally Posted by someone123

The addresses are not quite the same, but I think it's this one: http://halifax.ca/planning/Case17511Details.html

Looks like a nice medium-sized development. I think the North End is really going to come into its own in a few years.

Yeah it isn't this one. There is a 2 story brick building/ Halifax welders shop that will be ripped down for Case 17511.

In the 15 block radius from Gottingen to Robie and Young to Almon, there is 5+ developments going on or planned!

[mcmcclassic]

Originally Posted by Northend Nerd

Demolition has also begun on the used car dealership on Almon, beside the Shoppers and Post office.

They are going to be building a new RONA store on the spot where the used car dealership was.

[cormiermax]

I hope it isn't some suburban style crap with parking in front.

[Northend Nerd]

Nice! Do you know what is going to happen to the old location?

[Keith P.]

And as of tonight on my way home from work, the entire dealership is gone. Goodbye, A.E. Fowles. I have some nice memories of you.

[fenwick16]

Originally Posted by mcmcclassic

They are going to be building a new RONA store on the spot where the used car dealership was.

The old story (from January 3, 2012) seems to explain what mcmcclassic pointed out.

Pierceys may relocate
January 3, 2012 - 6:55pm By JOHN DEMONT Business Reporter


Rona, the owner of Halifax’s Pierceys store, says it is looking at a new location for the business, which has operated in the Halifax area for nearly a century. (ERIC WYNNE / Staff)

An iconic Halifax business may be moving from its decades-old location — but just barely.

Rona Inc., the owner of the Pierceys store on Robie Street, has opened preliminary talks about relocating the outlet to a nearby Almon Street site owned by the Bragg Group of Companies in Oxford.

The Bragg Group sold the Pierceys chain to Rona in 2010 but held onto the other site, now a used car lot, which is southwest of the existing store.

Rona is talking to Bragg subsidiary FS Industries Ltd. about building the new store if the move proceeds. Relocating the business would mean the Used Car Factory would have to vacate the land.
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full story and source: http://thechronicleherald.ca/busines...s-may-relocate

[fenwick16]

Originally Posted by Northend Nerd

Lots going on in the North End!

I noticed today that the empty lot at the corner of Isleville and Almon had a sign for re-development today. It doesn't seem that the case has made its way to the HRM site yet.

As Northend Nerd pointed out, a new Rona will be going up were the used car dealership was. (probably a small store since Rona is down-sizing its stores - http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe...article535134/ )

There was a story in the Chronicle Herald about the separate 2814 Isleville Street location.

Mixed-use development planned for north-end Halifax
July 13, 2012 - 6:08pm By REMO ZACCAGNA Business Reporter

The evolution of north-end Halifax continues.

Michael Napier Architecture has submitted an application, on behalf of Tony Metlej of Galaxy Properties Ltd., to amend the city’s land-use bylaw that would allow a development agreement for a mixed-use building on an empty lot at 2814 Isleville St., at the corner of Almon Street.

The seven-storey building would include 3,500 square feet of commercial space on the ground floor and 40 apartments with a mix of one and two bedrooms above.

“Right now, the commercial area is just along the front portion of the project with parking behind,” Michael Napier said Friday.

“It’s just commercial space that could be subdivided up into smaller spaces or up to a maximum of 3,500 square feet.”

The development is in proximity to an area where P.F.K. Properties Ltd. has proposed to build a $10-million residential building, which is also being designed by Michael Napier Architecture.

That proposal would see four properties at the corner of Bilby and Isleville converted into a seven-storey building, which would include eight two-level, townhouse-style units at the base of the building, 48 condominium-style apartments on the upper floors, and one level of underground parking with 44 stalls.

“This one (at 2814 Isleville) is very similar. It’s residential with ground-floor commercial, not with a townhouse-type sort of feel on the ground floor but it’s the same sort of height with underground parking,” Napier said.
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full story and source: http://thechronicleherald.ca/busines...th-end-halifax

[teddifax]

Great pictures of Halifax!!!

[teddifax]

From what I have read the old approach to have Public Housing as a project, just doesn't work in the long term. In the 60's when Uniacke Square was built, the intentions were good, but historically we have found out this direction to be misguided. Is has been found out mixing up the housing works better, so I agree with the comments here.