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Civic centre stirs up interest Nine submissions received for new civic facility project BY THERESA MCMANUS REPORTER tmcmanus@royalcityrecord.com
The City of New Westminster is impressed with the visions it’s received from the development community for the future multiuse civic centre in the downtown. The city issued an expression of interest to determine if a developer wishes to purchase density from the city, construct a tower above the multi-use civic facility and build the civic facility based on the city’s requirements. The city will also explore developer interest in a second city-owned property at 801 Columbia St. Lisa Spitale, the city’s director of development services, said the city received nine very good submissions. Because the submissions are “proprietary in nature,” Spitale couldn’t disclose the names of companies interested in partnering with the city on the project. “What I can say is we had an expectation that some of the developers working in the city would put their names forward,” she said. “That has certainly been the case.” Spitale said five of the submissions were from companies
Photos by Larry Wright/THE RECORD
May Day in the rain: Clockwise from top: Grade 4 students from all of New Westminster’s elementary schools do the maypole dance; the new May Queen, Emma Best from Lord Tweedsmuir, takes to the podium; some young spectators don’t look too thrilled with the weather.
A tradition for 140 years For the 140th time, May Day took place in New Westminster, and the long-standing Royal City tradition went off on Wednesday despite drizzly conditions at Queen’s Park Stadium. The weather meant the cancellation of the running relays, but the traditional maypole and folk dances still went on. After Emma Best from Lord Tweedsmuir was crowned as this year’s May Queen, the Ancient and Honourable Hyack Anvil Battery set off three special anvil salutes. See more photos and details on page 23.
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