[CPEO-BIF] Victoria BC Area-wide BF redevelopment on former sawmill

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Selkirk Waterfront winning fans

Times Colonist
Victoria, British Columbia

by Carolyn Heiman
June 17, 2007

Victoria, BC
Neither Robin Hoesly nor Joan Tinney was thrilled about leaving her downtown office
to work in another plunked in a former sawmill site, far away from the Bay Centre
and other shopping magnets.

..They work in a Selkirk Waterfront enclave with a school, coffee shops, about 600
residents living in swish condos and townhouses alongside social housing, a gym,
rowing club, a pub, and professional office spaces with light-industrial
bookending. Soon, a seniors assisted-living complex will join the mix. There's
space for retail shops, should the urge to spend return.

About 2,000 people go to the Selkirk area daily, some working, some living there.
They go to school, play in rowing sculls and kayaks, or walk, or cycle the
Galloping Goose trail that passes in front of the development.

 ...The development of the site after Fletcher Challenge closed its sawmill and
plywood plant could have been vastly different. After the facility was dismantled
in 1989, the first business to grab an option to buy was Price Club, which
envisioned the area with a big-box store surrounded by asphalt parking.

For the entire article, see:
http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/capital_van_isl/story.html?id=b714b89a-d477-45f2-964c-ac550fd5fa80


Bob Hersh
CPEO

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