Following our recent post on the proposed Century Condos development by DeSantis in downtown Grimsby, we received an email from Mr. John Ariens, Associate Director and Planner with IBI group on behalf of the developer, requesting that we share it with the community.
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PHOTO CREDIT: NIAGARA THIS WEEK
An interesting and thought-provoking opinion piece by James Culic popped up recently in Niagara This Week. He takes a look at the reality of the economic outlook and perhaps arguably a “bubble” that Niagara’s economy is in.
A new month means a new set of meetings… so here is the list. We have also placed these meetings in our event calendar widget in the sidebar for your convenience.
Given the recent release of 20 years of Regional Councillor expenses and the disclosure of the costs in the NPCA’s fruitless case against Ed Smith, it seems that those on Regional Council are keeping tight lipped about how they have been spending your tax dollars.
The community has been asking a lot of questions about what is happening with the downtown property at Main Street and Elm, next to “Beyond the Barre” across from the TD Bank.
This property was purchased by DeSantis (in addition to a few other properties abutting it) and fencing and a large sign was recently erected advertising “Coming Soon – Century Condos”.
PHOTO CREDIT: ST. CATHARINES STANDARD/FILE
It appears that the OPP has cleared the NPCA of any “criminal” wrongdoing after investigating allegations of such, but that doesn’t mean the storm has passed for the agency that seems to have little trouble attracting controversy.
We came across an interesting opinion piece by Joan Little in the Hamilton Spectator regarding out-of-scale development in Burlington and the rise of yet another citizen’s group.
In the case of Burlington however, their city manager James Ridge seems to be going the failed route of the NPCA in an attempt to suppress this public dissent.
Judges gavel and law books stacked behind
Despite the apparent attempts to keep costs under wraps, it looks like the now-dismissed lawsuit by the NPCA against Ed Smith ran up a legal bill of over $140,000.
We came across an interesting opinion piece in Niagara This Week regarding expense accounts, after the Region released 20 years worth of data as we previously posted here.
As the author points out, having one member of Council expensing a $10 ticket for a charitable event is beyond reason.
You can read the full article here: Hide the cookie jar? They’d just expense us for a new one.
We came across an interesting digital “dust-up” between readers of the Facebook group “A Better Niagara” and Grimsby’s Regional Councillor (and NPCA member) Tony Quirk over a recent newspaper article about the NPCA.