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Reject NS Minimal Planning Requirements

FHC Editor 2025-02-26 No Comments

(Feb 24, 2025) FHC’s submission to HRM on the Nova Scotia Government’s proposed changes to Minimal Planning Requirements* asks that they be rejected. The changes are without adequate public information,…

Le projet de construction de l’usine Mayflower a besoin de travaux!

FHC Editor 2025-02-26 No Comments

Maybe you know of the Mayflower Tobacco Factory building? Its a small brick building near the Halifax Common and Armories on Nora Bernard. Built in the 1800s, it survived the…

April 25th Public Hearing on 20-storeys is About Taking from the Common

FHC Editor 2017-03-25 No Comments

HRM’s Public Hearing for Armoyan’s proposal for the Willow Tree is April 25th, 6 pm at City Hall. But Friends of Halifax Common 10-year effort to have HRM honour its…

Brenton Place – Giving Away the Public Good

FHC Editor 2016-07-17 No Comments

In July 2016 HRM’s Design Review Committee (DRC) approved the controversial 16-storey Brenton Place. FHC’s letter to the DRC outlines its concerns… Dear DRC Committee Members: Please do not permit…

Are Dexel Developers Slick Marketers Using Brent Toderian & Bob Bjerke?

FHC Editor 2016-04-21 No Comments

FHC’s belief that protecting the Halifax Common must be a top priority as the population in the urban core grows is supported by growing evidence of the social, health and…

Whose Interest is the City Serving?

FHC Editor 2016-03-22 No Comments

The Halifax Common and the Parker-Welsford Street neighbourhood continue to be threatened by the proposed 30-storey Armoyen and 25-storey Chedrawe developments. It is disappointing to have city staff pushing through…

Residents say Armoyen’s 29-storeys is too tall for neighbourhood

FHC Editor 2015-09-18 No Comments

It’s Deja view! A 29-storey tower one of two developments proposed at the corner of Robie & Quinpool, next to the Halifax Common and residential neighbourhoods west of Robie Street…

St Pat’s Background Report Inaccurate, Inadequate & Biased

FHC Editor 2015-07-20 No Comments

HRM has posted a background report by WSP Canada Inc. about the former St. Patrick’s High School site (Quinpool 6067) in advance of Wendesday’s meeting. The three concept designs are…

Halifax Common vs. Block Buster Highrises

WebAdmin 2014-11-03 No Comments

Presently there are 2 proposals by 2 developers for 3 block-buster towers of 28, 24 and 12 storeys near the Willow Tree intersection. (For comparison, Fenwick Towers is 32 storeys…

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Reject NS Minimal Planning Requirements

Le projet de construction de l’usine Mayflower a besoin de travaux!

April 25th Public Hearing on 20-storeys is About Taking from the Common

Brenton Place – Giving Away the Public Good

Are Dexel Developers Slick Marketers Using Brent Toderian & Bob Bjerke?

Whose Interest is the City Serving?

Residents say Armoyen’s 29-storeys is too tall for neighbourhood

St Pat’s Background Report Inaccurate, Inadequate & Biased

Halifax Common vs. Block Buster Highrises

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