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Bosa breaks ground on Promontory

laura Lavin

Victoria News

laura Lavin

Victoria News

Seven years of development and more than $30 million of investment got physical this week.
There was an official sod-turning for the Promontory, a 21-storey building in Victoria West on the eight-hectare Bayview Place site on Monday.
Colin Bosa, of Bosa Properties, developer of the Promontory and land owners and developers of Bayview Place Ken and Patricia Mariash were joined by Victoria Mayor Dean Fortin and Coun. Marianne Alto to official turn the soil for the ground breaking.
“This is an exciting day for us at Bosa Properties and for the hundreds of men and women – most of them local – who will be employed here as tradespeople to construct the 177 homes at Promontory over the coming two years," said Colin Bosa.

New mosque coming for area's Muslims

By Sandra McCulloch,

Times Colonist

By Sandra McCulloch,

Times Colonist

The Muslim community of Victoria will have a new place to worship by the end of the year.

The groundbreaking for a new mosque, Masjid AlIman, took place on the front lawn of 2218 Quadra St. Friday. The mosque has been designed by Herbert Kwan Architects of Victoria.

"This is very exciting," said Salah Awadalla, president of the Victoria branch of the B.C. Muslim Association, at the ceremony.

"We have put a lot of time, effort and money toward it."

Quotes on the Economy

“The crisis takes a much longer time coming than you think, and then it happens much faster than you would have thought.”
- Rudiger Dornbusch, MIT economist, as quoted by John Hussman 7 Nov 2011

"If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change." The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

2011 Inaugural Address to City of Victoria

Good afternoon everyone and thank you for joining us today

We raise our hands to the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations in whose traditional territories we live and work.

Hay sxw qa.

I am honoured to be here, with this team of councilors around me

We are a progressive council elected in challenging financial times

I will start by congratulating each person around this table

It is a great privilege our residents have granted us – and I know that we all take this responsibility very seriously

To our three new faces – welcome – your long standing commitment to our community has not gone unnoticed, and now you begin in a new role serving the community you love

Landmark could spur Harbour Plan: Fortin

Bill Cleverley

Times Colonist

Bill Cleverley

Times Colonist

Redevelopment of the CPR Steamship Terminal building could be the lead domino in bringing about a new vision for Victoria's harbour, Mayor Dean Fortin said Wednesday.

The Provincial Capital Commission is picking a tenant for the landmark 1924 building, which was formerly home to the Royal London Wax Museum. While Fortin is not involved in the selection process, he said he is excited that the building could become part of a new Belleville Street ferry terminal.