Real Estate

While auto dealership baron Rob Steele is doing a deal to buy the former Rona building in Bayers Lake, as I reported in the previous news article, he is also in a selling mode on Kempt Road.

John Lindsay is in the midst of building two Burnside warehouses on Wilkinson Avenue at a cost of $6 million.

Editor’s Note: This story ran in The Macdonald Notebook on May 19th. It is repeated in this edition for the benefit of new readers, particularly as the IKEA store in Dartmouth Crossing opens next week, on Sept. 27, next Wednesday.

By Andrew Macdonald

Before IKEA made the decision last year to build a 320,0000-square foot store at Dartmouth Crossing, the retailer studied other locations in Halifax Regional Municipality.

Ross Cantwell plans to have a new 103-unit apartment building ready for the rental market in Halifax’s North End by Jan. 1.

In 2018, Joe Ramia will bring online 300,000 square feet of new office space in Halifax’s central business district at Nova Centre in Downtown Halifax.

Robert Richardson, a major Atlantic apartment landlord, was one of the first to forecast the Halifax downtown office district would become home to condo and apartment developments.

Feed Nova Scotia is expected to close soon on a purchase and sale deal to move its Bedford Highway headquarters into a former food brokerage warehouse in Burnside.