Construction to convert two decommissioned sanitary ponds into an ecologically restored public park in Port Coquitlam will get underway next week.
The two former waste settling ponds, which closed nearly 40 years ago, will be reshaped and the area will include viewing platforms, walking trails, a picnic area and a wildlife habitat island.
Work on the new Blakeburn Lagoons Park — located east of Blakeburn elementary — will transform the 27 acres owned by the city by November.
In 2015, the city received a $1.9-million grant from the federal and provincial governments to allow the municipality to proceed with the $3-million rehabilitation project.
Starting the week of March 27, city contractors will be on site from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily as well as some Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Visit portcoquitlam.ca/blakeburn or email Lee-Anne Truong, PoCo’s manager of capital projects, at [email protected] for more details.
Other PoCo news:
RESIDENTIAL DEV’T.
Another mid-rise housing complex is planned for downtown Port Coquitlam.
Last week, the city’s smart growth committee approved a development permit for a five-storey, 35-unit building at 2229 Atkins Ave.
City staff say Pacific New Homes bought part of an unopened lane to the north — next to the heritage-registered Rowland lacrosse box — to expand the lot size.
Laura Lee Richard, PoCo’s director of development services, told The Tri-City News the city is starting to see several six-storey wood-frame buildings despite the area’s high water table.
Quantum Properties Inc., which recently built the six-storey Orchid Riverside Condo Homes at Wilson Avenue and Reeve Street, plans four six-storey structures as part of the Port Coquitlam recreation complex upgrade.
Currently, the city is undergoing a Downtown Action Plan study to revitalize the core.
INDUSTRIAL DEV’T.
A massive light industrial complex is proposed for the Dominion Triangle.
Liberty Homes is proposing a 26-unit building at 575 Seaborne Ave., at Dominion Avenue, that would require the vacant seven acres to change from an agricultural land use.
The rezoning bid, which city council reviewed at its meeting last week, will require a public hearing.
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