The Official Moncton, NB Project Thread

[L'homard]

I'm sure there are many other francophone immigrants not being accounted for in the above T&T article.

I'm confident you are correct. I haven't been to the airport in about a year, but up to that point, one of the first things a newcomer would see, at the baggage carousel, was a big sign reminding immigrants that the francophone sud school district is happy to accommodate their children in their schools.

[JHikka]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

If 24-25 new immigrants per week is the norm, then this works out to 1250 new immigrants to the greater Moncton area per year. I think this would jive pretty well with the Anglophone East School Board welcome centre registering 650 newcomers (children) per year.

It's more suited to the Statistics thread but this more or less lines up with the numbers StatCan puts out.

In 2016, NB welcomed 4,675 immigrants.
In 2017, NB welcomed 3,649 immigrants.
Table: 17-10-0040-01 (formerly CANSIM 051-0037)

Breaking it down further, we can see immigrant intake based on subprovincial areas:

Westmorland County, Immigrant intake:
2012/13: 603
2013/14: 692
2014/15: 1,043
2015/16: 1,722
2016/17: 1,329
Table: 17-10-0085-01 (formerly CANSIM 051-0063)

So yes, your estimation is essentially accurate.

The three major cities in New Brunswick effectively split the immigrant intake three ways.

[MonctonRad]

Some colour for the page


Canada Day fireworks over the Petitcodiac River, from Councillor Greg Turners Facebook page.

[MonctonRad]

I've just reassessed this photo. There isn something not quite right here.

The trees are leafless. There may be a skiff of snow and ice on the ground and the lady just to the right of the monument seems a little overdressed for a July evening.

Also, the tower crane for Horizon Place is visible on the horizon. This was taken down a couple of month ago. Maybe these fireworks were from New Years Day.

Regardless, it's a neat photo.

[gehrhardt]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

I've just reassessed this photo. There isn something not quite right here.

The trees are leafless. There may be a skiff of snow and ice on the ground and the lady just to the right of the monument seems a little overdressed for a July evening.

Also, the tower crane for Horizon Place is visible on the horizon. This was taken down a couple of month ago. Maybe these fireworks were from New Years Day.

Regardless, it's a neat photo.

I was wondering about all the coats. I was out in shorts that night, so it seemed a little off.

[MonctonRad]

The July meeting of the Moncton PAC is devoted to discussion of the Downtown Core Community Improvement Plan.

http://www.moncton.ca/Assets/Residen...+Agenda+EN.pdf

The documentation on this plan is extensive.......

[MonctonRad]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

Here are the renders of the Centennial Park pool project:











Essentially the whole face of Centennial Park fronting on St George Blvd is going to get a makeover, including paving the parking lot and the access road to the Rotary Park Lodge, and it does appear that they are adding a bus stop in front of the pavilion for the pool. This is a major project!

Now that the Atlantic Nationals are over, they have started clearing the trees from the former picnic area in Centennial Park for the new Centennial Beach project.

[MonctonRad]

Apparently Rogers Communications has just announced 215 new jobs in the Hub City to go along with their existing employment base of 1,000 employees.

I currently have no additional information as to the type of jobs these are, but I presume they are "customer contact"

Stay tuned.........

[MonctonRad]

from the City of Moncton

City of Moncton building permit values closing in on last year’s record tally

July 24, 2018

MONCTON – Year-to-date values for 2018 permits add up to $145.6 million, compared with $153 million last year, representing a difference of about 5 per cent. The total value of permits for the second quarter ending June 30 came in at $127.8 million, compared with $95.2 million during the same period last year. The total number of permits for the quarter was 395, down slightly from 429 in 2017.

Commercial and residential building permits had 3-month totals of $88.2 million and $12.4 million, respectively. The largest drivers of these results include an expansion at Organigram on English Drive ($36.7 million), a new Hyatt Hotel adjacent to the Downtown Centre ($17.6 million), a new Costco off Elmwood Drive ($13.5 million), and an expansion of Kent Distribution on Commerce Street ($9.5 million).

Institutional permits accounted for $25.5 million or 20 per cent of the quarter’s activity, with much of that derived from a new school going up in Moncton’s North End.

“The last three years of development have been the best years on record at this point in the year,” said Mayor Dawn Arnold. “Our community is demonstrating confidence and consistency, and we are all working to ensure the momentum continues, leading the way as the economic leader in New Brunswick.”

The City’s Economic Development team continues to raise awareness related to Moncton’s attractiveness for investment, living, working, and running a business.

“We are seeing so much opportunity for both people and businesses to locate here for increased prosperity,” said Kevin Silliker, Director of Economic Development. “We are in the unique position of being able to facilitate some of these connections that go on to be very positive influences within our economy.”

[MonctonRad]

from CBC:

10 portable classrooms ordered as enrolment grows in Moncton schools
Superintendent says population growth and early French immersion changes play a role
CBC News · Posted: Aug 03, 2018 8:00 AM AT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

Another 10 portable classrooms are being added to overcrowded schools in the Anglophone East School District to accommodate students in the upcoming school year.

Greg Ingersoll, superintendent of the Anglophone East School District, said population growth and the reintroduction to early French immersion are causing some schools to run out of space for students.

"In certain areas in our school catchments there's growth," Ingersoll said.

Ingersoll uses the example of Moncton's north end, where population is continuing to grow, resulting in portable classrooms being added to Northrop Frye School in the area.

"That's continuing to be a major growth area," he said.

The Moncton school will get two portable classrooms and eight more will be installed at four other schools throughout the district.

There will be three at Riverview East School, three at Bessborough School and one at Birchmount School in Moncton and one at the Shediac Cape School.

Right now, there are already six portable classrooms in schools across the district.

Four of those portables have already been added to the Arnold H. McLeod School in the city's east end over the last two years to help with overcrowding.

"In Riverview, specifically in the area of the Riverview East School is located is another area that's growing very rapidly. This year we had no choice but to add portables to that school."

Meanwhile, a new middle school is being built in Moncton's north end to help alleviate overcrowding in the two kindergarten to Grade 8 schools, Northup Frye and Evergreen Park School.

The school is expected to open next year.

"Even though once we do that and have a little bit of room in the north end, projection over the next 15 years, it's going to continue to grow," he said. "So probably all three will be full again at some point."

The population growth in the city and region is bucking the trend compared to other parts of the province where student enrolment is declining.

It's amazing to think that even with the addition of the new anglophone middle school in the northwest end that the school board is already predicting the need for additional capacity due to ongoing population growth. I know that Evergreen Park School cannot be expanded any further. I think that given it's design, Northrup Frye may be difficult to expand too. Hopefully they will be able to add another wing on the new middle school. Otherwise, a fourth anglophone school in the neighbourhood may be necessary within the next 10-12 years. Also, although nobody is talking about it, will growth in the area mean the need for a fifth anglophone high school in the metro area (in the northwest end)?

The other area of concern is Riverview East. The school there is only a few years old and already they are adding three new portable classrooms. What will this mean for the future???

[C_Boy]

The fact that all new schools that have opened up in the past 10 years in Moncton were already overcapacity the day the opened or within a year is a clear indication of the lack of planning on the provinces part. Building a school before an election is great for perception. Cheaping out in the short term is a costly longterm plan.

[mylesmalley]

I'd like to know what enrollment looks like across the board. I don't doubt that the North End schools are overcrowded, but are there neighborhood schools ( looking at you, Queen Elizabeth, Birchmount, Hillcrest, Beaverbrook, and especially Edith Cavell) that have capacity? If a certain percentage of kids are being bused in already, is it really so terrible to send some to the next school down the road?

[alleben]

Here are the 2017 enrollment numbers for each school in the district:
http://www2.gnb.ca/content/dam/gnb/D...ophoneEast.pdf

[lirette]

Ridesharing service coming to Moncton

This could be another transportation option to the new events centre. They have a multi layered business plan involving other services like food delivery and parcel deliveries. I hope this succeeds. The Moncton Taxi market is ripe for disruption. Most feedback on taxi drivers in Moncton is not positive and I have experienced some of this myself.

http://huddle.today/this-company-has...the-maritimes/

[MonctonRad]

Here is the pdf for the monthly PAC meeting. This is the second month in a row that the PAC has been unusually quiet. I hope this is not a sign of things to come.........

http://www.moncton.ca/Assets/Residen...PAC+Agenda.pdf

[MonctonRad]

Federal/provincial infrastructure announcement at UdeM today.

Canada and NB support infrastructure improvements at the University of Moncton... both levels of government and the university allocate over $ 460,000 funding will be used to improve water supply infrastructure and Wastewater Treatment of campus and to develop and improve road infrastructure within campus. 1.3 M (split between the federal government, province and university)

Basically they are creating an internal roadway on the north side of Morton between the Shannex development and the medical school building for a "research and development campus"

[L'homard]

Sounds like an overblown way to say they are paying for the university's sewer and water pipes across Morton Avenue.

[Photo1]

Not sure where this should go...but thought it might be of interest.

Nordia...the call center on Edinburgh Drive has purchased the old RBC building and is moving to that location (tentatively January). They have already begun construction and gutted the interior of the old RBC. Apparently this is in the area of a $4M renovation.

Organigram, the owner of the building Nordia is currently in, will continue its expansion into the Nordia space once they leave.

[MonctonRad]

Cathy Rogers has just announced that the only location being considered for a replacement west end anglophone K-8 school is the Bessborough site.

https://www.telegraphjournal.com/tim...ory/100707114/ (paywall)

Formerly, a new site on the Franklin Yard was also potentially under consideration. This apparently has become an election issue, hence the nead for Rogers to clarify the situation now.

Essentially Hillcrest will eventually close. Bessborough will remain open during the construction phase of the new school next door. Once construction is complete, the old Bessborough and Hillcrest schools will be demolished.

It will be quite similar to what they did with the Ste Bernadette School in the west end six years ago or so........

[Scarface]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

Cathy Rogers has just announced that the only location being considered for a replacement west end anglophone K-8 school is the Bessborough site.

https://www.telegraphjournal.com/tim...ory/100707114/ (paywall)

Formerly, a new site on the Franklin Yard was also potentially under consideration. This apparently has become an election issue, hence the nead for Rogers to clarify the situation now.

Essentially Hillcrest will eventually close. Bessborough will remain open during the construction phase of the new school next door. Once construction is complete, the old Bessborough and Hillcrest schools will be demolished.

It will be quite similar to what they did with the Ste Bernadette School in the west end six years ago or so........

1. It's good to know that they finally made a decision on this issue. It is indeed a good location I will say some parents from Hilcrest are not happy with this decision.

2. I was going to say it if you din't that they where going to copy the building process of Ste Bernadette School.

It's seemingly a better way to go as the school stays open but there will be some headaches as it shrinks down what little outdoor space the kids have for the time being until the new school is built, and old one demolished followed by the landscaping.