City of Edmonton Fails to Release Environmental Study on City Centre Airport Lands. The  latest environmental study of the  Edmonton City Centre Airport lands  was provided to the City of Edmonton  in August, 2012.  The City has yet  allowed this report to be made public. Because of the delay, one has to  assume that their is information in  that report that is not in favour of the  City’s redevelopment plans.  Does it  mean that the environmental costs  are going to be extremely high?  Does  it mean that the airport lands are not  suitable to redevelop into residential  property allowing the residential lots  to remain competitive?  Maybe this  report will make council have to justify   that it will cost hundreds of millions of  dollars to clean up the lands at  taxpayer’s expense.  Call the City of  Edmonton at 311 and demand the  report and costs to be made public.

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Opinion:  The City of Edmonton is Not Telling Edmonton Taxpayers the Entire Story on Costs of Redevelopment of the ECCA lands. January 8, 2013 Consider all of the facts on the information the City of Edmonton has released on the true cost of redevelopment of the ECCA lands.   The City has quietly been purchasing buildings on the airport lands.  They currently own Buildings #15, #16 and #39.  In addition to the purchases of property that has been made, the City has conducted environmental studies of the airport, the most recent which was to be released in the fall of 2012.  As of today, the City of Edmonton has not released the report or the related cost estimate for land remediation. In the fall of 2012, City Administration went before council and advised them that expropriation of the airport lands would cost $80 Million.  Obviously, they did not include the monies that was already spent buying out existing leases on the aforementioned properties, failed to estimate the other costs related to expropriation which include compensation for lost business, relocation costs awarded to the business or replacing existing structures that may be awarded to the expropriated business.  The major item that was excluded is the estimated awards that will be given by the courts to the three businesses that have legal action against the City of Edmonton over the airport lands and relocation.  Two of these three businesses have leases that extend for more than another decade and their business is based on the premise of being located at the ECCA.  The awards to these companies will be high and the cost of these awards will be shouldered by the Edmonton taxpayer.  You can email your City Councillor at councillors@edmonton.ca with your questions about the real ECCA costs.

News City of Edmonton Expected to Spend Hundreds of Millions of Dollars on ECCA Redevelopment that is Not Being Disclosed to Taxpayers.

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 January 7, 2013