For those of you who missed it, Ice Cycle was two Sundays ago. It’s basically an event where hard core cyclists taunt the weather and risk getting pneumonia while going for a bike ride in extreme cold. Mother Nature doesn’t enjoy getting taunted and met them with –40 degree weather. Now personally I think each [...]
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PotashCorp WinterShines 2011
Wendy, Mark, Oliver, and I went down to the PotashCorp WinterShines today. It was beyond chilly. With the wind it was –35 degrees Celcius which is so cold, it freezes your cheeks so you can’t talk. We wandered around the Saskatoon Farmer’s Market, drank some hot chocolate and coffee, and enjoyed the ice sculptures. It [...]
The destination hotel lives again
Here is the news from Dave Hutton of the Star Phoenix, The highly touted $200-million River Landing hotel-office-condo megaproject was saved Monday with just minutes to go before an agreement with the city died. Saskatoon-based Victory Majors Investments Corp., backed by a group of unnamed local investors, bought out Calgary-based Lake Placid Developments and provided [...]
The Boulevard of Missed Deadlines
Dave Hutton of The StarPhoenix documents the missed deadlines that have defined the Lake Placid project at River Landing. Hutton has a story on the latest deadline but it can be summed up in one paragraph. Six months ago, Lake Placid CEO Michael Lobsinger and Nasser, backed by a long list of businesspeople, stood in [...]
The Ongoing Saga of Saskatoon’s South Downtown
So Lake Placid Developments hasn’t been able to come up with the money for River Landing. Apparently the fall of the capital markets has made it very hard to come up with the $200 million dollars needed to build the cornerstone of what we hope River Landing to be. While I was hunting around online [...]
