[Image-1] Our cooperative recently advertised a one-bedroom plus den unit for $620/month (heat and water in) and were dismayed by the response: We received 47 applications. The letters sent were inspiring and heartbreaking. Young and old, from all social backgrounds. They were all making meaningful contributions to the city as teachers, lawyers, community gardeners, volunteers, […]
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New lease on life for empty Gottingen Street lot
[Image-1] It’s sat empty for years, but there are finally some signs of life from this Gottingen Street lot. The barren location, across the street from the Halifax North Memorial Public Library, is to be the home of a new apartment building planned by Ross Cantwell and other partners of 2300 Gottingen Street Ltd. Cantwell […]
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While you were sleeping
[Image-1] “It was fucking brutal.” Justine MacPhee doesn’t hold back when talking about her past bedbug infestation. The 24-year-old Haligonian is still trying to climb back up from the financial and psychological damage. “How shitty it was having to wash and dry on high heat, which destroyed a lot of my clothing,” she says. “I […]
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Construction of affordable housing on Gottingen a go
Gottingen Terrace, the affordable housing project planned for the old Sobeys site on Gottingen Street, across from the North Branch Library, is alive and well, says Grant Wanzell, president of the Creighton/Gerrish Development Association, the non-profit organization behind the development. The recession has slowed the housing industry everywhere, “but we’re doing much better than the […]
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Gottingen Terrace moves forward
There are three housing developments in the works along Gottingen. The first is a horrendous looking apartment complex going up at the corner of Falkland (Hello! Street level parking garage?!), the second the more-promising Theatre Lofts project just to the north. But the third is the most interesting on the street. Gottingen Terrace is the […]