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[Victoria Watcher]

The Vancouver company that owns the 726-acre Sandstone site at the south end of Nanaimo hopes for a public hearing this fall to present a revised vision.

 

“It is basically going to be a game-changer for south Nanaimo,” Ian Porter, Seacliff Properties’ director of development, said Wednesday.

 

https://www.timescol...aimo-1.24181781

 

Sandstone is at the junction of the Trans-Canada and Duke Point highways.

 

When Seacliff bought the land in 2018, it came with a previous blueprint for a planned community.

The new version includes a business park expected to generate 5,500 permanent jobs once the project is complete.

 

Seacliff’s other Vancouver Island properties include Royal Beach land in Colwood, where it plans a mixed-use development, and the Fairwinds golf and residential community at Nanoose Bay.

 

 

 

 

 

project website:  https://sandstonenanaimo.ca/

 

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 06 August 2020 - 06:19 AM.

[Mike K.]

South Nanaimo is in bad, bad shape. It needs whatever help it can get.

[RFS]

South nanaimo is fine. Its a perfectly normal place where normal people live and raise their families

[Mike K.]

Well, I was there on Monday. It was Burnside-Gorge 2.0, perhaps even rougher.

[RFS]

You were hanging out in Chase River? Or Cedar?  Too many chicken coops?  Yards too big?  Too many boats or RVs?

[Victoria Watcher]

i think this development is south of "south nanaimo" as we now know.  

[Mike K.]

The closest thing we have to that area, in terms of physical degradation and sketchy ambiance, would be the area immediately around the shelter in Rock Bay.

[Mike K.]

You were hanging out in Chase River? Or Cedar?  Too many chicken coops?  Yards too big?  Too many boats or RVs?

 

That's Cedar and Chase River, not south Nanaimo. South Nanaimo is the area immediately south of downtown Nanaimo.

[RFS]

Semantics.  That is where this project is and what most would consider south nanaimo

[Victoria Watcher]

 

 

 

 

 

[RFS]

Nanaimo city limits extends to Duke Point highway so the development is South Nanaimo 

[Victoria Watcher]

but it's not in the crap area/neighborhood mike refers to.

 

 

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 06 August 2020 - 09:23 AM.

[RFS]

I think youre a bit off there. I'd call the VIU area nice, the two neighborhoods you called crap id go OK, then downtown and the train tracks/native band area you called nice unfortunately is crap

[Victoria Watcher]

 

 

 

oh i think i put pam anderson in the wrong place.  well she is getting older maybe she will retire to parksville.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 06 August 2020 - 09:31 AM.

[RFS]

Either way, no body beats Victoria when it comes to sketchy filthy societal breakdown

[Mike K.]

Have you seen south Nanaimo lately? It’s intense, by the standards of a city the size of Nanaimo.