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Five mornings a week, your alarm goes off, you get up, get dressed and leave. If you’re like 63 per cent of Canadians, you bang back a hot, life-giving cup of coffee before you start your workday and go off to a job you may or may not like. Why? To keep a roof over your head, put food on the table, and save something for yourself.
A makeover of some federally owned property is under way in the southwest corner of Centretown, where a long-term plan to sell one site is moving forward and a soil remediation project is underway next door thanks to funding from the federal economic stimulus program.
Evgeniya Kulgina, Centretown NewsThe Booth Street complex is fenced off for soil decontamination. The project is to be completed in March.
As mayoral frontrunners debate light rail and road construction ahead of the Oct. 25 municipal vote, one thing is certain: the outcome will have implications for Centretown well beyond the new mayor’s four-year term.
Efficiency was a key word at a televised Somerset Ward candidate debate – which covered such issues as taxation, transit and housing – on Rogers last week.