By Pepper Parr
October 25th, 2022
BURLINGTON, ON
The newly elected Mayor get serenaded by her election team and announces that she is going to make the ownership of the LaSalle Park property a major mission for her. we will follow her efforts with much interest.
The city rent the property from Hamilton – lease is about to expire. So far Hamilton hasn’t liked what Burlington is offering.
Of even more interest is – has the deal to purchase the Bateman High School site a “done” deal?
The public was told that it was scheduled to close on September 30th – which was too close to an election to announce that $50 million was going to be spent. In real estate deal as large as this there are often technical things that crop up.
When public money is being spent the practice in most municipalities is for the people doing the spending to tell the people who are doing the paying.
So far nothing on the closing of the sale.
So far – it is just a concept. There is a deal in the making but nothing official yet
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Burlington’s policy is to not discuss real estate. If it’s real estate it’s confidential.
The City and the Schoolboard made that part of their deal.
According to Kevin Galbraith, the City of Hamilton isn’t interested in selling LaSalle Park and the City will be signing another 25 year lease.
At least, that’s what he publicly stated at his last public information meeting on September 7th.
Seems like one of the two is lying to the public?
Is Hamilton planning to sell LaSalle?Is this really a priority?