
Westshore Business Corridor - an in-depth discussion with Colwood Mayor Rob Martin, Citified Media CEO Mike Kozakowski and Langford Acting Mayor & Councillor Matt Sahlstrom
August 5, 2020
Colwood Mayor Rob Martin (5:57 - 24:50)
- families are attracted to the Westshore…"the place to be"
- Colwood's focus is on creating prosperity in the household…i.e., household wealth
- Housing affordability
- business support, especially small business
- Development activity:
- Wale Road "hole" - 147 affordable housing units
- Colwood Corners Corridor
- Royal Bay - 2100 residents / 300,000 sq ft commercial 40,000 sq ft supermarket / 10,000 sq ft Day-care
- within the next 5 years we'll see a billion dollars of development spending between all the numerous Royal Bay projects
- Rob reviews how Colwood can help the region in total
- Olympic View, Allendal District and Colwood Corners round out the balance of developments that will generate $2.5 Billion in development activity