The back story given to us behind the "Three Sisters" name brand is laughable...
John Lafford has 'four' daughters with his wife Heidi.. Go figure?
More here: Three Sisters | Moncton NB | Facebook
As a no b.s. type Gen X from an immigrant family and one of 'three sisters' I consider all the greedy 'SMARTGROWTH' shills to be the enemy and I hope that they see the light and change their ways and start to #BuildBackBeauty instead of ugly SMARTgrowth projects.. its not too late to be part of a true renaissance instead of creating a prison-landscape!
How is packing people into ugly, expensive, concrete, rental towers in the city anything like planting vegetable gardens and growth? Growth of personal wealth for Lafford and Celly perhaps... rentals.... @ $1,700 per month for a one bedroom apartment, $2,000 per month for a two bedroom apartment, $3,500 per month for a three bedroom apartment? Wow. The concrete would be put to better use in a new skatepark in #Tantramarshire...
New tab (tantramarskateparkproject.blogspot.com)
Just wow... no garden, no where to relax, no place to just quietly listen to the birds, plant flowers, trees, vegetables... put down your feet on some grass and earth..
they are actively bringing what's wrong with Toronto, Halifax, Vancouver, Montreal to New Brunswick it is a stupid but greedy plan... have folks really learned nothing watching the big cities with their idiotic 'SMART' growth planning take over the landscape?
What could be more soul-destroying than living inside a little box of a tower housing project ... this not the future you should wish for any of your fellow New Brunswickers.. what are these people REALLY contributing to society but more 'densified' living and increased cost of living ...
"symbolic of growth, mutual support and community" says Lafford.... utter bullshit.... communitarian lingo from Lafford -- he will make a HUGE financial killing for years to come with the help of his REALTOR sidekick Jenny Celly who herself relocated to Sackville
Jenny Celly, Realtor | Moncton NB | Facebook
.. she does not live in SMART-growth pack 'n' stack housing with her family but lives comfortably in a house here with a garden AS DOES LAFFORD who has lived here in Sackville his whole life.. so these people are simply greedy, hypocritical, ambitious phonies...
WE MUST end SMARTgrowth in the Tantramarshire long before this sort of high density housing is permitted in our beautiful 'shire' . . . . home gardens and quality of life on the land creates joy and abundance!
Lifestyle is important.
Samples of their chicken coop rental boxes in the sky are below...
After making downtown Sackville ugly with SMARTgrowth builds Lafford's ambitions have taken him to Moncton to be a developer of more UGLINESS... people are not meant to live in this way.
The Anti Communitarian League vs. Communitarianism (bitchute.com)
It is unGodly.... "Catholics for Cash"... there's a slogan you could honestly run with "Latina Jenny" and Johnny...
your God appears to be money.
People ask me, “Why Three Sisters?” The answer is very close to the origins of Canada’s culture, and very close to my heart.
As a young man I became a collector of Inuit and Indigenous art, and I was struck by how often the image of Three Sisters appeared in a painting or a carving, the figures intertwined in mutual support.
As my appreciation of such works grew, I learned how much we owe to all those who taught our ancestors the agricultural wisdom of Three Sisters - corn, beans, and squash - three vegetables, planted together, supporting each other in growth, and feeding the communities that nurtured them.
Time passed, and my wife Heidi and I were blessed with children - first one daughter, then twin girls, and then a fourth daughter. And as they grew, it struck me that each would always have Three Sisters to count on for love, for companionship, and for mutual support
And so, as the vision of this building project took shape - three stately towers overlooking the Petitcodiac River, designed to shelter hundreds of households on the shores of downtown Moncton - with it there grew the image of the Three Sisters, symbolic of growth and mutual support and community... a tribute to the inspiration of the earliest artists and farmers of this land, bearing the names of some of the dearest people in my life: our eldest, Quinn;, our twins, Gwenythe and Elle; and our youngest, Caroline.
John Lafford, President
Lafford Properties
Greedy Jenny the 'comes from away' is hoping to help shape a very different New Brunswick?
"June 10, 2020 - MONCTON–A large apartment development that has the potential to change Moncton’s downtown skyline now has a name: The Three Sisters Along the River.
While only one sister is under construction right now, John Lafford said the name was inspired by the beauty in nature at sites like the Three Sisters rocks in Parrsboro, which is the recurring motif in art of three sisters, and the fact that each of his four daughters has three sisters.
“I’m an art collector and that’s part of where the inspiration came to me. Ultimately, the buildings are synergistic with each other. It’s a bunch of different things but through my connection to art and my daughters, [I] came up with that name,” he said.
Coinciding with the branding of the development, Lafford has started leasing apartments in the first tower, at 20 Record Street.
“We just started taking deposits and have had a lot of interest and phone calls but haven’t put too much pen to paper yet,” Lafford said.
Lafford, who owns Sackville-based Lafford Properties, said he’ll have a better idea of how popular the apartments are over the next couple of months after his company, Lafford Realty, starts a promotional campaign for the buildings.
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Lafford plans to wait to see how quickly the first of three 15-storey towers rents out before starting work on the second.
“We’re doing them one at a time, so we don’t put ourselves in a position of weakness by putting a whole bunch of units on the market and not being sure whether they’ll absorb into the market or not,” he said in October. At a time, the apartment vacancy rate in Moncton was 1.5 percent, according to CMHC figures.
If all three towers are built, Lafford could be bringing as many as 450 new apartments to Moncton at a time when vacancy rates remain low.
The 150 units in the first apartment tower, which will vary in size from 700 to 3,000 square feet, will rent from around $1,250 to $2,000 a month.
“It’ll be something new, and new downtown, so it’ll be something nice. We’re going to try and hit all the price points,” Lafford noted.
Lafford, who received city council’s approval to build on the property in late May 2021, said construction is a little ahead of schedule – a similar scenario to when he spoke to Huddle last October, as crews were finishing the foundation of the first tower.
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Each tower will feature a variety of unit sizes, from smaller bachelor apartments to full-sized penthouse suites. Lafford said crews are just finishing up work on the 11th floor, with plans to build four more floors and the roof this summer.
“It’s taking shape,” he said, adding that work wasn’t significantly slowed this past winter’s ugly weather.
“I’d be lying if I said snow didn’t slow us down, but it didn’t deter or discourage us. We’re well-organized from the management down and we got through that hump. January was a bad month and February gave us hope and we had a great March.”
Lafford originally bought the property from Slate Office REIT in 2020 and broke ground for the first of the Three Sisters in July 2021, after wrapping up work on the $30-million Birch Meadows apartment in the Lewisville neighbourhood.
Before Lafford purchased the property, the City of Moncton voted seven to four against a plan to turn it into a 365-space parking lot for the nearby Blue Cross Centre, in 2019.
Sam Macdonald is a Huddle reporter in Moncton. Send him your feedback and story ideas: macdonalds@huddle.today."
What's the price charged by the Town for putting your face in to the public space at the ice arena?
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