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"The way they did it was sort of, 'In your wildest dreams, and if you had an unlimited amount of money, what would you do?' And that's the hype that kind of got out there," said city council finance chairman Justin Swandel, whose St. Norbert ward includes Waverley West.
"Any peripheral development is never cost-neutral," said architect Steve Cohlmeyer, an early critic of Waverley West. "The cost of servicing everything -- libraries, schools as well as the obvious infrastructure systems -- is very high.""I think all the early signals point to a successful development," he said. "We're only two years into a 20-year project, remember."See the full content of this document
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'Hood-Winked?
Winnipeggers were promised a utopian suburb in Waverley West, but scaled-back plans have dashed expectations and created a very different reality
444The Manitoba government and land developer Ladco promised, in January 2003, to transform 1,200 hectares of mostly empty land into the largest residential development in the city's history: Waverley West, which could eventually see 12,000 homes and about 30,000 people spring up on Winnipeg's sout...See the full content of this document
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