What’s the future hold for Shannon Park? – The Coast Halifax

July 02, 2015

Community comes together for Dartmouth “ideas fair.”

Shannon Park in Dartmouth is a waterfront ghost town that could one day rise again as a sort of fanciful, mixed-use redevelopment.

Just what this modern layout should look like was the subject of a public forum last week in Dartmouth hosted by the Canada Lands Company—the federal Crown corporation overseeing the proposed refurbishment of the surplus property, which was obtained last year from the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces.

Canada Lands Company’s “ideas fair” attracted dozens of people to the first of two sessions at Shannon Park Elementary School. The corporation will act as “master land developer” in any private sector, market-driven project in the former military-housing neighbourhood, located near the MacKay Bridge.

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