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Grain terminal plans raise ire BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com
Plans for a massive new grain terminal on the North Vancouver waterfront are meeting opposition from residents who say the North Shore is already overburdened with waterfront industry.
STOLEN INDEPENDENCE North Vancouver resident Michael Twyman stands in the parking garage of his Lynnmour North townhouse complex where his custom-made adaptable bicycle was stolen from last week. See story page 11. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD
“If you research any communities that live in any proximity to a grain terminal, you’re going to find that residents live in a nightmare,” said Holly Cole, a North Vancouver resident who has been leafletting and collecting signatures for an online petition against the project. Manitoba-based G3 Global Holdings has partnered with Western Stevedoring to build a new terminal at the foot of Brooksbank Avenue, currently home to Lynnterm Westbank. If approved by Port Metro Vancouver, the new terminal would consist of 48 concrete grain silos standing 43 metres
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THE SHIPYARDS: PIPE SHOP BUILDING
Waterfront museum plans are history JUSTIN BEDDALL jbeddall@nsnews.com
A week after breaking ground for the new Presentation House Gallery at the foot of Lonsdale, City of North Vancouver council has voted down plans for a new museum inside the nearby Pipe Shop building at the Shipyards.
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The decision came Monday after a closed-door session with the museum’s capital campaign organizers. In July 2013, the North Vancouver Museum and Archives
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Funds raised fall short of target, council votes down proposal
received conditional approval from council to develop a museum at the Shipyards provided that they raise $5 million by Dec. 31, 2015. The city pledged to match contributions up to $5 million if the target was met. Campaign chair Don Evans and other members of the team sat glumly in the back row of the gallery as council debated the museum’s fate publicly after the in-camera session.
As of Dec. 31, the drive had reached 83 per cent of its target and currently it has two major corporate donations reaching final approval stages which would add $600,000 to the total. Still, some council members weren’t convinced as to the viability of the project, which was planned as an interactive cultural history museum. Coun. Craig Keating said the biggest factor in his decision was the BDO Canada report to council last year that “advised
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