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WEW PROPERTY MAY BE USED AS LONSDALE QUAY LINK

A $1.6 MELLION flower Lonsdale fand purchase
by North Vancouver city may bridge the gap be-
tween Lonsdale Quay and a future city develop-

ment at First Street.

North Vancouver City
Council recently agreed at a
special meeting to purchase
the chunk of land between
Esplanade and First Street,
where Hollyburn Lumber
was located.

“Tt could be a major
linkage between the Quay
and a comprehensive

development by the city —
like a village complex,"’ Ald.
Ralph Hall said. ‘*Otherwise
what is the point of buying
the property if it’s not a
link.””

Ald. Stella Jo Dean said

ILLEGAL SIDE-
WALK sandwich
boards are impeding
Lonsdale pedestrians.

By BARR

F FISHER

North Vancouver City
Council received a staff
report Monday stating there

with the recent land pur-
chase, the city now owns
over $25 million of property
between Esplanade and Se-
cond Street.

Dean said in a March 1984
motion that she would like
to see a development which
might include department
stores, restaurants, theatres,
retail space, offices, com-
munity amenities and
underground parking, fol-
lowing the lead of Lonsdale

Quay.

have been inctzased com-
plaints from local residents

‘coinciding with the inercased

display of sandwich board
signs by Lonsdale mer-
chants.

Upon investigating, city
engineer ‘Alan Phillips said
according to the City Street

See Sandwich

Dean suggested First
Street could be blocked off
between Chesterfield and
Lonsdale to accommodate a
large development.

She recommended in her
motion the city nationally
and internationally advertise
for prospective developers
interested in the property.

Dean said the
“municipality owned land is
considered to be the most

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