November 10, 2009 - 10:41 am |
Posted by Jonathan Ross
A fat bank account and the continuing flow of development-related revenues is the only thing that seems to be of any interest to Burnaby Mayor Corrigan these days.
Mayor Corrigan basks in the admiration of his subjects.
He is sitting high with $633 million in the bank, hundreds of millions more in land reserves, and complete control of Council.
Yet with all of this financial capability behind him, Corrigan continues to tell people in his community that affordable housing and homeless shelters are not his responsibility.
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September 21, 2009 - 8:57 am |
Posted by Jonathan Ross
The Little Mountain housing redevelopment project, which will be announced as having struck an agreement later this morning, is a fantastic example of cooperation between the provincial government, the City of Vancouver and a private developer.
The City of Vancouver has exacted a number of important concessions with the Little Mountain redevelopment project.
But it is also an example of how tough negotiations with the province ensured that the City maximized it’s rate of return for allowing the property to be redeveloped. Read the rest of this entry »
