I don’t know how any Regina journalist who is on the city hall beat doesn’t include, in every story about our generation’s answer to the Chateau Qu’Appelle, some line such as … ‘A Capital Pointe representative, who spoke on the condition of anonymity but who is so full of horseshite that the eyeballs are turning brown …’
Face it. If the people responsible for this project couldn’t scratch together the financing when Saskatchewan’s economy was as hot as the exhaust pipe of a Sabrejet on afterburners, there’s no way this project will be built when oil has fallen from $100 per barrel to $45 a barrel (and falling), the Canadian dollar has gone from par with the U.S. dollar to about 75 cents U.S. (and falling) and Saskatchewan’s economy is free-falling into recession.
Do they still have a sales office across the street, like they did four years ago? I wonder if anyone put a deposit down back then, and how screwed-over they were/are.
Shady past ; this fortress has…
http://hardcorevalueblog.blogspot.ca/2015/01/earn-8-fixed-interest-fortress-real.html
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/skyscraper-developers-ordered-to-pay-3m-in-2011-1.1319587
whether or not this will end up being built is still up in the air, in most people’s minds (and mine) – but at least we can keep an eye on them.. just found this live stream – http://www.capitalpointecam.com/