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Dalhousie University wants to tear down a 125-year-old home on Edward Street

Dalhousie University is growing. Enrolment numbers for Atlantic Canada’s largest university totalled nearly 22,000 students at the end of 2021, and have been increasing by at least 500 students annually for the past five years. Dalhousie is also expanding as a real estate developer, particularly around its Studley campus in south end Halifax. Last year, […]

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“Massive” Cogswell redevelopment coming for 2025-2026

The redevelopment of the Cogswell Interchange, which is billed as the biggest city-building project in Halifax’s history, is expected to finish up in the 2025-2026 fiscal year. Construction will break ground this winter on the rebuild that mayor Mike Savage says will bridge a gap between peninsula Halifax’s north end and the downtown core. “Make […]

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Keeping up with Halifax’s changing city scape

The Coast is rounding up the buildings and projects so you can know about them before they’re towering over your backyard. Ben’s Bakery redevelopment An eight-storey plus a penthouse mixed-use building with apartments and street-front businesses, townhouses and a six-storey Berkeley assisted-living residence are planned for the 10,000-square-metre lot between Quinpool Road, Pepperell, Preston and […]

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Halifax regional council’s new rules for sidewalk obstruction hope to curb hassle for pedestrians

Mitigation of development and construction impacts, the rules surrounding shutting down sidewalks and streets for construction, have been updated to protect pedestrians as the importance of new developments continues to grow across HRM. The old guidelines allowed construction sites to temporarily close or use only a portion of the street and area adjacent to the […]

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Halifax’s old memorial library gets heritage status from regional council

Grafton Park and the old Memorial Library beefed up their protections against being flattened in the future, as regional council approved heritage site status for the building and the entire property it sits on at the corner of Spring Garden Road and Grafton Street. The designation as a heritage site—versus just a heritage property—means that […]

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Halifax’s lengthy budget process kicks off

Halifax Regional Council’s budget committee kicked off its 2020/2021 budget process this week, diving into preliminary discussions on how and where to spend the municipality’s—and the bank’s—dollar bills. First up this week was capital spending—better understood alongside its partner in crime, operational spending, which includes year-to-year costs of running a city: AKA groceries. Capital spending […]

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