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Retro fun rolls into Tsawwassen!
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Youngsters race down the 6th Avenue hill in the inaugural Soap Box Derby Saturday in Tsawwassen. See more photos on Page 20 and at www.delta-optimist.com.
Southlands approval almost final
Century also ready to submit mall redevelopment plan SANDOR GYARMATI
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Two major developments that will transform Tsawwassen are in the works. Fourth and final reading by Delta council is scheduled for later this month on the Century Group’s Southlands application, approval that will open the door for initial infrastructure work. Council recently granted company president Sean Hodgins an extension of final reading so
he’d have more time to complete technical drawings and legal documentation. Hodgins told the Optimist once final approval is granted, the first activity will likely be a new farm road crossing the Southlands, a site bounded by 56th Street on the west and Boundary Bay Road on the east, as well as a water line from the Pebble Hill reservoir. That work is set to begin later this summer. “It will be many, many months before you see any
vertical construction, any housing construction happen,” said Hodgins. “The first phase will be the Market Square and the housing immediately around that. Our plan is to do 74 housing units in the first phase. There will be some cottages and townhouses and most of those will be immediately south of 3rd Avenue. It will be a couple of years because there’s so much civil work to do. We’re talking the spring of 2018.” MALL: see Page 3
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Century Group president Sean Hodgins says infrastructure work on the Southlands will begin this summer, but housing is at least two years away.
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