Company: Parking Lot and Submissions

company: The request for submissions, which closed last week, yielded 13 responses from various entities including several commercial and residential developers, a hotel company, a pharmaceutical company, an immigration law firm, and a company that develops manages casinos, according to The Chronicle Herald. Department spokesperson Brian Taylor said the staff will evaluate the submissions in the coming weeks , and from there, government will make a decision on next steps. The Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal announced in mid-June that it was seeking submissions for innovative and creative ideas to develop the seven-storey Dennis Building site on Granville Street which includes the three-storey Hansard Building and the adjacent parking lot. Joe Ballard, President of the Historic Trust of Nova Scotia said the province should not have lumped the two buildings together in seeking proposals as it limits the number of developers that have the ability to seriously respond to projects of that scale. Ballard organization provided was one of the 13 that responded to the province, but he said the aim of the submission was to provide information to the province and outline their position. We know there are individuals that are interested in just one of the buildings, he said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.