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based arts programs and performances.
The New Westminster Museum
and Archives, New Media Gallery and
Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame all call
Anvil Centre their home. "Anvil Centre's
unique business facilities and cultural
programs will bring people into the
downtown daily, which in turn will
create spinoff economic benefits and
contribute to a vibrant downtown core,"
says Blair Fryer, New West's manager
of communications and economic
development. The office tower of Anvil
Centre was purchased by Kingswood
Capital's Joe Segal and
CRS Group of
Companies president &
CEO Suki Sekhon;
the conference centre is owned and
operated by the city.
Other developments that have
reshaped New Westminster include
Shops at New West, a dynamic retail/
entertainment/residential complex
through which the SkyTrain travels; and
the award-winning Westminster Pier
Park, a $25-million 3.8-hectare riverfront
recreation area and promenade. This
sprawling public amenity was designed
to open up the waterfront to pedestrian
traffic and features a festival lawn, courts
for basketball and volleyball, children's
play areas, a concession facility and
cycling and pedestrian pathways. The
creation of three adjacent residential
towers will result in the park being
expanded by another two acres in the
near future.
Farther east is Wesgroup Properties'
$600-million redevelopment of the
Brewery District at the old Labatt brewery
site. The nine-acre development consists
of office and retail space, residences and
health facilities; its desirability is such that
Save-On-Foods and TD Canada Trust have
become anchor tenants, and Translink
relocated its head offices to the site, signing
a 20-year lease (Translink alone brings 900
to 1,000 employees into the area).
Elsewhere, the Uptown and
Queensborough districts continue to
thrive (the former is home to Queen's Park
West, a Class A four-level office building
owned by Uptown Property Group, and
the latter is the location of Port Royal by
Aragon Properties). New Westminster's
Sapperton's Brewery District is a
nine-acre development
by Wesgroup.
The award-winning Westminster Pier Park
has something for everyone, including a
waterfront boardwalk, picnic tables and
sand volleyball courts.
