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A service station will be the first construction project in Winnipeg's Naawi-Oodena development, an infill project slated to become Canada's largest Indigenous urban economic zone.
The redevelopment of the former Kapyong barracks in Winnipeg's Tuxedo neighbourhood is inching closer, as some of the plans for the site are starting to work their way through city hall.
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Typically, reserves are located far from urban areas and lack the infrastructure to have commercial development take place, Daniels explained. The concept of an urban reserve allows First Nations to use land within a city to develop for commercial purposes and generate revenue for their community, he said. So a lot of the profits that are generated on the site will go back to the seven Treaty 1 nations to prosper economically and socially, he said.
Kapyong was mostly abandoned in 2004, when the 2nd Battalion Princess Patricia s Canadian Light Infantry moved from the military barracks to the Canadian Forces Base in Shilo, Man., located about 180 kilometres west of Winnipeg.