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Originally Posted by Lomac
Wait... so the NDP was slamming the Liberals for contemplating selling government assets in order to help the deficit, but then turn around and state that they're thinking of dumping BC Place and the Convention Centre?
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For the record, these are the government assets to be sold off in the 2013 budget:
Properties currently for sale or where sales agreements are in process:
a vacant lot on Watkiss Way near Victoria;
a large surplus parcel on Tranquille Road in Kamloops;
a surplus parcel at Mission Memorial Hospital;
two large vacant lots in Surrey on 192nd Street;
a former elementary school in Surrey;
a large vacant lot in Burnaby;
a former health-care facility in Vancouvers Grandview-Woodlands neighbourhood;
a vacant lot in Lions Bay;
a former school board office in Surrey; and
a vacant lot on Keith Road in North Vancouver.
Other properties to be put for sale:
the Pearson-Dogwood health-care redevelopment;
North Saanich Middle School;
a six-hectare vacant lot in the Panorama neighbourhood in Surrey;
a parking lot near the legislature in Victoria; and
a seven-hectare site north of Kelowna that was being tentatively held for the new correctional facility.
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B.C. Liberal government assailed over its plans to use real-estate asset sales to balance the budget | Politics and Policy | Business in Vancouver