NCC still too secretive on LeBreton Flats anchor project
Re: “LeBreton redevelopment competition: rules are public, process supervised,” (The Hill Times, March 16, p. 8, letter to the editor by NCC CEO Mark Kristmanson), which was in response to my March 9 column, (“Hush-hush about LeBreton Flats anchor project plans,”) on the NCC’s secretive approach to LeBreton Flats development. Mr. Kristmanson defends the LeBreton Flats anchor redevelopment process as open and supervised, with the public having a say. But just because the NCC has set out its
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