(Common Councillor Peter McGuire)
(File Photo)
The city has handed out 150 thousand dollars in grants to various projects in the most vulnerable communities around town, including Crescent Valley. The 20 to 25 year plan to transform that neighbourhood is underway and Common Councillor Peter McGuire is worried if developers don't jump on board. He maintains if, at the end of all this, the neighbourhood is made up of all public housing, then the dedevelopment will have been a failure.
Deputy City Manager Andrew Beckett has expressed concern at what he sees as the low level of interest on the part of private developers thus far. Some of the grant money has been used for the publication of the community newspaper "Around the Block".
