NCC still too secretive on LeBreton Flats anchor project
March 20, 2015
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.
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