The Official Moncton, NB Project Thread

[JasonL-Moncton]

It appears they are building some kind of walking trail from just behind the first apartment building on Connaught, after the Wheeler overpass...along the fence on that side of Wheeler. Perhaps to connect the new apartment buildings to the main street?

It's almost complete by the look of it...

[MountPleasant]

Horrible news, stay safe.
Much love, Moncton.

[Smevo]

Stay safe everyone! I'm watching the updates and hoping for a resolution soon!

[Walk then Run]

To my home town folks and Codiac RCMP officers (uncle and friend)...my thoughts and prayers go out to you all.

[MonctonRad]

Got the bastard!!

[Fischbob]

Glad to hear it ended peacefully, and that as always, the RCMP got their man in the end! My thoughts remain with all Monctonians - especially the dead and wounded officers, their family and friends - as the healing process begins.

I'll add no more, because I think your motto says it best: Resurgo

[MonctonRad]

Moncton council pursues centre of curling excellence
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Times and Transcript
By: Brent Mazerolle

Moncton city council has voted unanimously to throw its support behind a plan to make the city a centre of curling excellence.

At last night’s public meeting of council, the councillors approved something discussed at a private meeting on June 11, three actions that will help Curl Moncton double the number of ice sheets at the Beauséjour Curling Club from five to 10.

First is the donation of City of Moncton-owned land, valued at $250,000, to give the Beauséjour rink, at 80 Lockhart Ave., the room to expand.

Second, the city will provide an immediate $238,000, 10-year repayable loan, to be repaid through equal annual payments at no interest but with appropriate security on that portion. One of Curl Moncton’s two other properties, either the Beaver Curling Club or Moncton Curlers Association club, will be the security or collateral. The loan and matter of collateral will be firmed up only if Curl Moncton manages to secure other funding for the project and goes ahead with it.

Third, the City of Moncton will provide another $605,837 interest-free, 10-year repayable loan to be repaid through equal annual payments. This will be used for municipal infrastructure relocations, parking lot design and paving costs once the project is a go and all other funding is in place.

Curl Moncton’s goal is to continue creating a centre of excellence and enhance the training for New Brunswick competitive curlers. They hope the measure will also help preserve curling in Moncton as well as place Moncton in the forefront for curling in Atlantic Canada.

read more:
http://22864.vws.magma.ca/index.php?&article_id=13069

[FarmerTom]

Not sure why they are spending huge money to add more sheets, when they closed the beaver curling club. Its sitting there use it instead

[MonctonRad]

Metro ranks well in business tax competitiveness
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Times and Transcript
By: Eric Lewis

Metro Moncton is ranked second in Canada in terms of its“business tax competitiveness”in a new study compiled by KPMG.

Yesterday, KPMG – an audit, tax and advisory firm – issued the Competitive Alternatives 2014: Focus on Tax report, a study that compares business tax competitiveness in locations across Canada and in more than 100 cities among 10 countries.

Four of the top five Canadian cities are located in Atlantic Canada. While it’s Moncton that is ranked second, Brent Spencer, KPMG office managing partner in New Brunswick,said that includes the surrounding area.

Edmonton came in tops among the 15 Canadian cities profiled this year in the biennial study, with Moncton at a close second and Fredericton third, followed by St. John’s and Halifax. The study also confirmed that all Canadian cities studied are more tax competitive than the most tax competitive U.S. city.

read more:
http://22864.vws.magma.ca/index.php?&article_id=13080

[MonctonRad]

Here is the new website for 3+ Corporation (Enterprise Greater Moncton):
http://www.3plus.ca/#about

I stole this image form their new website. It is about the best aerial perspective I have ever seen of the downtown core. It gives the visual impression of density and in some trick of photography (mostly perspective and telephoto lens), does an admirable job of hiding the blight of surface parking in the core.

[NBNYer]

Great shot. Thanks for sharing, MonctonRad.

Downtown sure has it's challenges, but I've noticed it is getting busier. The foot traffic on Main can be huge, it's not given enough credit sometimes on here.

[Sunnybrae]

I gotta say though that the Assumption Place building looks like a big tombstone. Too bad they couldn't update it somehow.

[josh_cat_eyes]

Originally Posted by Sunnybrae

I gotta say though that the Assumption Place building looks like a big tombstone. Too bad they couldn't update it somehow.

Yeah it's pretty hard to update building like that! The old Dominion building in Charlottetown recently went through a revocation and it is almost the same and they even gutting the building. Unless you stripped it down to the beams it's probably going to stay looking like a Tombstone

[NBNYer]

Originally Posted by josh_cat_eyes

Yeah it's pretty hard to update building like that! The old Dominion building in Charlottetown recently went through a revocation and it is almost the same and they even gutting the building. Unless you stripped it down to the beams it's probably going to stay looking like a Tombstone

Not necessarily. They could redo the windowed facades and add a glass curtain wall. It might end up looking like a mini UN headquarters building.

[Taeolas]

Or just build more similarly tall buildings around it. Part of the reason it looks like a tombstone is because it towers over everything else. If it had a variety of similarly sized bretheren around it, it wouldn't look as bad in context.

[Sunnybrae]

Originally Posted by josh_cat_eyes

Yeah it's pretty hard to update building like that! The old Dominion building in Charlottetown recently went through a revocation and it is almost the same and they even gutting the building. Unless you stripped it down to the beams it's probably going to stay looking like a Tombstone

Well the Bell Alliant tower received a makeover and it looks really good, and they didn't need to strip it down to the core..... I think. Maybe it just needs a really good cleaning.

[josh_cat_eyes]

It would help for sure if there was other towers in Moncton!

[mylesmalley]

I feel like I'm the only one on here who likes brutalist architecture Agreed on needing more towers though.

[MonctonRad]

I have always thought of the Assumption Building as being a large phallus (a concrete brutalist phallus at that) thrust upwards into the heavens in the centre of downtown Moncton. It makes a statement all right - just a very unfortunate statement…….

The building is completely out of scale with the remainder of the core, and is so ugly that it literally brings tears to ones eyes. Unfortunately, it isn't going to go away, and the best we can hope for is that it will eventually get hidden by other surrounding tall buildings as the downtown grows. This unfortunately will take centuries to occur…….

[josh_cat_eyes]

It's funny that it was built a while ago but there hasn't really even been any proposals to build something to even come close to being as tall as it.