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Development Links
A variety of planning and development related links of interest.
Halifax Halifax Strategic Urban Partnership Canadian Urbanism Canadian Urban Institute Planning and Design Centre Dalhousie University: School of Architecture Town of Lunenburg: Planning and Development
Articles of Interest:
Halifax Magazine, January, 2017: “Not the City I Knew”, Op Ed
CBC Nova Scotia, December 9, 2016: Waterfront Development seeks new vendors for Halifax boardwalk “We are accepting ideas around different forms of buildings,” said Jennifer Angel, the acting president of the Waterfront Development Corporation, “so they might be like the kiosks or they may be some different model.
Metro News, December 9, 2016: Plan shows new public area with vendors, seating on Halifax waterfront. Waterfront Development is asking for proposals from vendors wanting to operate in the new space, which is set to open this June.
AllNovaScotia, November 29, 2016 City Staff Green Light McCrea’s Queen’s Marque After a lengthy review, City Hall planners are supporting the approval of Scott McCrae’s $200M waterside development Queen’s Marque. In a new report, planner Luc Ouellet recommends the development be approved by the city’s Design Review Committee when it meets later this week. The report says the project requires 13 variances to the city bylaw that governs planning in Downtown Halifax.
Metro Halifax, June 21, 2016 Take it up a notch:’ public, business owners asked to help shape Halifax waterfront space Waterfront Development is hosting sessions to gather ideas for the area between Sackville and Salter streets
Metro Halifax, March 21, 2016 Halifax regional centre plan meeting draws a crowd, brings forward ideas
Lighthouse Now, March 16, 2016 Lunenburg’s Foodland chalks up another award Fast forward to 2016, and the store has just been named by Sobeys, its parent company, as store of the year for the Maritimes for the second time in five years. In addition to that, it has also won the firm’s prestigious “winning conditions” award. Within the Sobeys framework, Foodland is the community-based banner found in 51 smaller markets in the Maritimes. Local Xpress, March, 2016 SCHNEIDEREIT: How much of Dartmouth’s Sawmill River will rise from the dust?
Halifax Magazine, January, 2016 Parking and Surviving in Downtown Halifax
CBC, January 18, 2016 Halifax’s downtown isn’t dying despite rising vacancy rate, city says
Progress Media, December 2015 Moving on up: Halifax’s Discovery Centre is getting some fancy new digs. This time next year, the popular science centre will move from its Barrington Street location to the Nova Scotia Power building on the city’s waterfront.
Progress Magazine, August, 2015 Waterfront Development looks at productive uses of waterfront lands that will benefit researchers, ocean technology companies, and entrepreneurs
Progress Magazine, August, 2015 The links that bind; a former Dartmouth coast guard site is set to become a centre for ocean-related industry in Nova Scotia
Summer, 2015 Can you design innovation?
Chronicle Herald, March 30, 2015 Editorial: Base great investment in booming ocean tech sector
Chronicle Herald, March 25, 2015 Ex-coast guard base in Dartmouth to become focus of ocean research
The Canadian Press, March 25, 2015 Nova Scotia government purchases property from coast guard for $6.5million
Chronicle Herald, January 10, 2015 DEMONT: A Decade of Change Ahead for Halifax
Downtown Halifax Business Commission, December, 2014 New Barrington Benches and Interactive Art Revitalizes Site.
Chronicle Herald: Business Voice, December 2014 The blue economy: A place defined by the ocean and a culture of innovation. By Colin MacLean.
Bedford Magazine, December 2014 Revising a Vision. With feedback from the public, a new plan for the Bedford waterfront looks ahead with a smaller footprint.
Metro Halifax, December 2, 2014 Thousands of More People Wanted to Live in a Re-vamped Downtown Dartmouth.
Chronicle Herald, October 28, 2014 Developing a Vision
CTV Atlantic, October 21, 2014 NS in Negotiations to Buy Prime Waterfront Property From Federal Government.
Halifax Magazine, October, 2014 The Rising Ocean
Articles on Planning Applied Arts Charming Environmental Design: The Footprints of Copenhagen. Tiny details add a layer of charm and humanity to the ordinary aspects of city living.
Halifax Magazine Tear Down This Wall. With the redesign of the Cogswell Interchange, Halifax gets a rare chance to correct an urban planning disaster and reunite a city.
Nova Scotia Webcam Links
Halifax/Dartmouth
Bishop’s Landing Cable Wharf Ferry Terminal (Halifax) Halifax Waterfront Halifax Harbour Entrance Macdonald Bridge Maritime Museum of the Atlantic Museum Wharves Pier 21 Sands at Salter Merlin the Talking Parrot
Lunenburg Lunenburg waterfront (Museum Wharf)