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When travelling towards downtown Dartmouth via Wyse Road, one of first buildings to greet your eyes is the former Dartmouth heritage museum. And what a greeting it is. Basically, the building looks—and has looked, for quite some time—terrible. As Kyle Shaw outlined in a recent Coast editorial, there are boarded up windows, mould problems, thoughtless […]

Here’s the thing about widening Chebucto Road: Adding another lane and another strip of pavement to our city is not a progressive idea. Christ knows if anyone on Council is paying attention, but for the record: The 20th century was all about the car, the 21st is all about how to stop using them. The […]

When volume one, issue one, of Seek landed in our mailbox last week, we didn’t know exactly what we were looking at. But we were definitely curious. The three-page, double-sided fold-out bills itself as a Planning & Design Centre newsletter. There isn’t much on the front page to indicate exactly where it comes from, but […]

Welcome to Halifax, land of opportunity. This week, the year-old HRM by Design forums shifted into phase four of seven, and focused on four major opportunity sites in the downtown Halifax and Dartmouth areas: Quinpool, Gottingen, Dartmouth Cove and the Dartmouth Shopping Centre (roughly, downtown Dartmouth). If you happen to live in an “opportunity site,” […]

Halifax lost a local bicycle legend this past week with the passing of Jack Nauss. Nauss died of a heart attack on Friday at the age of 79. Nauss had owned and managed the Jack Nauss Bicycle Shop Ltd. on Agricola Street since 1969, and was a well known figure on the Halifax bicycle scene. […]

The Halifax Urban Greenway is quite possibly one of the nicest projects you’ve never heard of. Essentially, the Greenway involves two parallel trails—a three-metre-wide trail reserved for cyclists, skateboarders and other non-motorized wheels, and a one-metre-wide walking path—that would follow the edge of the Halifax peninsula. The Urban Greenway would connect Chebucto Road to Point […]

Hey, Bloomfield Centre, I’ve got some good news and some frustrating news: The good news is that the city has announced the centre will be cleaned up. The main building on the corner of Robie and Almon will receive new lighting, floor tiles and a fresh coat of paint. The trio of buildings making up […]

Reaction to Monday’s federal budget continues this week. Are you still reading? Seriously? Evaluating a federal budget can be about as exciting as a trip to the DMV: We’d understand if you’d already checked out of this column and moved on to Bar Watch—or Savage Love. (Admit it: You’ve already read Savage Love, haven’t you?) […]

The first round of 2006 census data was released this week, and the news for Halifax was not particularly good. Like many other urban areas in Canada, the city is growing—but not keeping pace with other cities. The HRM’s population had inched upwards by just 3.8 percent since 2001, prompting much dooming and glooming—”Why are […]

Regional council has approved a plan that opens the door for more large-scale concerts on the Halifax Common—up to two shows a year for the foreseeable future—beginning this summer. The 18-page recommendation describes last September’s Rolling Stones concert as “undoubtedly a great success”—but also admits “the process leading up to the actual event cannot be […]