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It took a demolition crew just a few hours to tear down a small office building on a prominent corner in Nutana earlier this week.
Now, the local developer who owns the site at Main Street and Dufferin Avenue says his best-case scenario is to start building a 15-storey apartment building with street-level commercial space in the next two months.
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James Wright, who recently moved back to Saskatoon after a career in the American and National Hockey Leagues, acknowledged there are feasibility questions still to be answered, but expressed optimism about the project.
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A plan that promises to dramatically reshape many of Saskatoon’s busiest streets passed its first test despite a lack of detail about how it will work, and strong opposition from some people living nearby.
During a marathon meeting late Monday night, city council unanimously endorsed BlackRock Developments Ltd.’s request to rezone land at Main Street and Cumberland Avenue in Varsity View for a 26-unit condominium building.
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The local developer’s proposal is regarded as the first test of city hall’s corridor growth plan, which envisions 22,000 new residential units along major arteries as the city grows to 500,000 people over the coming decades.