REGINA – The skyline of Regina’s downtown will continue to evolve this year.
Construction is slated to begin on three new towers, including a 16 floor, 400,000 sq. foot building at 1855 Rose Street.
“It’ll be the largest building by mass in the province,” said Mayor Michael Fougere.
Capital Pointe hotel/condominium is expected to break ground on the corner of Victoria Ave. and Albert Street, with a Farm Credit Canada building also planned for the downtown.
The much anticipated football stadium will start to take shape in the coming months.
Design for the $278-million structure is still being finalized, but physical work is expected to start this summer.
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For those who love to shop, retail expansion continues in both the east and west ends of Regina.
“It will revitalize and energize the retail sector here,” said Lisa Watson, a marketing professor at the University of Regina. “(It will make people) want to get out and spend those dollars by going into the new shops and giving things a try.”
Some big names are coming too, such as Bed Bath & Beyond, Bouclair Home, Sephora and Marshalls.
Watson points to the outlets from the United States just beginning to move north.
“(Marshalls) is an American chain seeing a stagnating market to the south. They need somewhere to go. They need to maintain that profit margin.”
Outside Regina, the $100-million Moose Jaw hospital project is nearing completion.
Though projected to open at the end of 2014, the city says it may not quite meet that deadline.
The state-of-the-art facility is, however, expected to improve health care throughout southern Saskatchewan.
“Any time a community in Saskatchewan gets a hospital, like Moose Jaw, it’s good for Regina, it’s good for Assinaboia, it’s good for Swift Current,” said Dawn Luhning, Moose Jaw’s deputy mayor. “It’s not just about the City of Moose Jaw, it’s about the region.”
New neighbourhoods will be in the early stages of development in the Queen City, including the controversial Somerset community in the northeast and Coopertown to the northwest.
All paving the way for more growth and more people in 2014.
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