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FRIDAY, JULY 14, 2017
Delta sends help to battle B.C. wildfires IAN JACQUES
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Buildings are now rising from the foundations to provide homes for additional tenants at Tsawwassen Commons.
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Mall taking shape again Construction now underway on next phases of Tsawwassen Commons
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After months of what appeared to be little progress, a flurry of construction activity is now underway on the next phases of Tsawwassen Commons. The Optimist was taken on a tour of the Tsawwassen First Nation site this week and provided an update on the 550,000-square-foot outdoor mall.
“It’s a large site so when you don’t see as much happening, to the general public, it might seem like something is wrong,” said Novy Cheema of Gracorp Capital Advisors Ltd. “The public wants to see the vertical construction and the buildings going up and that will happen in the next few weeks. You will start to see coming soon signage, so people can see what is coming here and I think the perception in the public will really change.”
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Anchored by market is slower. It’s Walmart, Canadian just a product of the Tire, Rona and othtimes, so it has taken ers, the 100-store mall a bit longer to get was expected to open the leases that we last fall in conjuncwanted, so, yes, we tion with the adjacent are a bit behind from Tsawwassen Mills, where we thought we but less than 10 stores would be a year ago,” have opened thus far. Novy Cheema he said. Cheema said the Cheema said overall retail market has been based on the site footprint, slower than anticipated. almost 60 per cent of the mall is “You will see throughout the actually complete. Lower Mainland that the retail EATERIES: see Page 3
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First responders from Delta have answered the call to help battle the province’s wildfires. A Delta staff member and a Delta firefighter have been deployed to Williams Lake where they are assisting the Caribou Regional District Emergency Operations Centre, while six Delta police officers have been deployed to various locations around Williams Lake and 100 Mile House. “We [staff, Delta Police Department Lois Jackson and Delta Fire Department] actually met in a tent at last weekend’s Tour de Delta to decide how we were going to proceed, what was needed and who would go,” said Mayor Lois Jackson. “We told the province that we were on standby and ready. We have always offered to go when called upon because we know how important it is when you have limited resources and little towns that don’t have the equipment and personnel. We are also grateful when others assist us, like they did last year with the Burns Bog fire.” Hundreds of wildfires are burning, many out of control, primarily across the Cariboo region, destroying property and displacing tens of thousands. Delta police officers are being deployed for four to seven days at a time.