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Bernadette Majdell, CEO of HomeSpace Society, has praise for a city council decision to approve a $5.5-million grant allowing a vacant downtown office tower to be transformed into affordable-housing rental units.
Sierra Place, on the corner of 7
th Avenue and 6
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The building was owned by Artis REIT but has been empty for two years. Chris Howard, vice-president of Capital Markets Group at Avison Young, which has enjoyed a long relationship with HomeSpace, brought the property to Majdell as a possibility for another downtown site.