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The proposed Nelson Landing housing development is back, with a new look aimed at opening up the city’s east waterfront with public amenities. Storm Mountain Development Corporation in Vancouver picked up the abandoned project last September. The company’s CEO, Allard Ockeloen, was familiar with the Nelson Landing from having worked as the project’s chief financial officer under former owner David Sorenson of Sorenson Fine Homes. Ockeloen was at a Nelson city council meeting Monday to share his new vision for the project, which will require zoning changes and therefore a public consultation process. The new owner scrapped the Venetian style, over-water condos that Sorenson had designed to extend on piers into Kootenay Lake. Instead, the new design shows a waterfront patio and mixed use buildings, as well as a 38-slip marina. “I envision a cafe moving into the commercial space to serve people sitting on the pier,” Ockeloen said. “It will be a place people can slow down and take Story continues to ‘Project’ on Page 14