Plaza Retail REIT launches grocery-anchored Halifax development “Halifax is a growing market that obviously motivated Loblaws and us to move forward with a new development,” Plaza chief executive officer Michael Zakuta told RENX. “Like a lot of Atlantic Canada, it’s...

Residential Highrise On Heritage Property Clears Advisory Committee HALIFAX—The Halifax Peninsula Planning Advisory Committee has given its blessing to a proposed highrise development near Cornwallis Park in Halifax. The project will see an eight-storey residential...

Lumber shortage raises big issues for construction industry There's a lumber shortage in Nova Scotia and it's forcing big and small construction companies to make some tough decisions on what jobs they can complete. Some big construction companies are going to feel a...

More class actions headed to court over pandemic business interruption Class actions asserting pandemic BI insurance coverage are starting to mount in the ‘In’ baskets of Canada’s insurance defence bar. Most recently, Koskie Minsky announced July 6 that it will be one...

Highrise Towers On Joseph Howe Drive In Halifax One Step Closer To Approval HALIFAX – A project that would see a pair of highrise towers built on Joseph Howe Drive is one step closer to approval. At a virtual public hearing last night, Halifax Regional Council OK’d...

Halifax's slow-moving and stalled developments HRM has had its share of projects – those in the public and private sectors – temporarily shelved, or move at a snail’s pace The municipality has seen lots of construction cranes pop up during its recent building boom....

Residential eviction ban ends in N.S., concerns loom for tenants, landlords Thousands of Nova Scotians could be facing homelessness now that a provincial order banning landlords from evicting tenants behind on their rent because of COVID-19 is about to be lifted. The...

Access Nova Scotia resuming full operations. Last night Service Nova Scotia and Internal Services' advised IPOANS through a stakeholder letter that Access Nova Scotia is resuming full operations tomorrow, Thursday, July 2. Access Nova Scotia will now accept...

Pandemic-Level Parcel Demand Putting Strain on Multi-Residential Buildings COVID-19 has brought an unprecedented surge of home deliveries, putting a strain on delivery services, but changing demographics over recent years had already created a potential tsunami of...

Government urged to extend eviction ban to ensure 'evictions don't happen' As the expiry date for the provincial moratorium on evictions nears, the NDP and Nova Scotia ACORN are calling on the provincial government to extend the ban on evictions, freeze rent increases...