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- Purchase pondered

THE VANCOUVER Port Corp. (VPC) has been given an option by the owners of the Fullerton Fill site in North Vancouver City to buy the 65-acre parcel of prime waterfront land.

Meanwhile, negotiations are continuing between the VPC and the city to acquire some of the Versatile Pacific Shipyards Inc. (VPSD property at the foot of Lonsdale Avenue.

Ald. Bill Bell said the city and VPC have met to discuss the acquisition of the two properties.

“*They (VPC) have plans for Fullerton to build a dock there. They also have a bid for ‘*’ersatile, and they wouid like it rezoned,’* said Bell. ‘

But he added that while the city iias no obiection to a rezoning part cf the VPSI lands, it wants to keep some of the existing buildings and designate them as heritage sites.

VPC spokesman Barbara Duggan said the VPC has an

- option to purchase the Fullerton Fil) site but that the VPSI site ‘‘is more complicated."' She added that the VPC has held some informal

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~ $80M resort proposal |

to get another look

A PROPOSED $80 million.

mountain resort . develop- ment,. initially rejected by the provincial government, is not dead yet, says Squamish Mayor Egon Tobus.

He and the town council have invited government officials and the development's principal players to discuss the Brohm Ridge/Garibaldi proposal’ at a special public meeting on Thurs- day afterncon. ~ Mayor Tobus said in an inter- view on Monday that with Squamish ‘‘struggling to ensure its economic stability ... we are con- cerned at the government dismiss- ing this pian.”

Last month, the province re- jected the project from Garibaldi Alpen Resorts Ltd. (GAR) on the strength of a study the environ- ment and lands ministry commis- sioned from Sno-E Canada Ltd., a Whistier-based consultancy.

That study questioned the private financing available and doubted that the site could be de- veloped as a year-round resort.

But now the Squamish council wants a full accounting and has invied GAR chairman Wolfgang

By John Pifer From Victoria

Richter, lands ministry director Dick Roberts, and a representative of Sno-E to the Thursday open meeting,

Mayor Tobus said he was “‘astonished’’ at the government’s decision to reject the Alpen plan without further consultation.

He has tried on several occa- sions to meet with Environment Minister John Cashore on the issue, but to no avail.

Some Crown lands officials met privately with the Squamish coun- cil late last week, the results of which should be aired on Thurs- day.

In Victoria, officials in the tourism and economic develop- ment ministries say that although they are interested in the project, they cannot interfere in the deci- sion taken by Cashore’s staff.

The GAR proposal to develop the 8,000-acre Brohm Ridge site on Crown land was first submitted two years ago.

Richter says there would be no public funds involved in his com- pany’s development, a factor that Mayor Tobus called significant.

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