URBAN MATTERS: Fixing Great Northern Stroad.
Recently the City of Sault Ste. Marie Planning unveiled the “EA Phase 2 – Evaluation of Alternate Solution(s)” for reducing…
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URBAN MATTERS: Station Mall, Apartments not Condos needed!
The StratonHunter Group, a food and beverage management company is in the process of transforming the old Sears anchor building…
URBAN MATTERS: Downtown Petoskey; a Sense of Place.
Recently I visited Petoskey, Michigan and was impressed with its “sense of place”. Petoskey has arguably the classic American downtown. …
URBAN MATTERS: The Sault’s Billion Dollar Housing Backlog.
The comprehensive Housing Needs Assessment report done by Planning lays out a staggering amount of work needed to meet the…
URBAN MATTERS: Queen St. Reconstruction; lessons learned from Gore St.
At the Council meeting on July 10th, 2023, a Councillor stated “We should learn lessons from the Gore Street reconstruction”….
URBAN MATTERS: One lane Downtown Queen St. Crazy idea, maybe not.
Downsizing downtown Queen Street to one vehicular traffic lane might seem like a crazy idea; however, it may not be…
URBAN MATTERS: The street fight for Queen Street
The street fight for Queen Street has many opponents. Here is my list of whom they are; and their general…
$4 Billion for affordable housing; will the Sault get any?
“The Housing Accelerator Fund (HAF) launching summer 2023- provides incentive funding to local governments to boast housing supply across Canada”,…