Barrie v. Quigg: Round one
Posted by Steven Hurdle on March 9, 2008
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By — Jason Youmans
Mar 05 2008
Barrie v. Quigg: Round one
While Bear Mountain developer Len Barrie tries to sort out his $1.4 billion “contractual thing” with QBM Developments Inc., some observers have been left to wonder whether Barrie knew something the rest of Langford didn’t.
A statement of claim filed by QBM in B.C. supreme court on February 20, alleges, amid a wide-ranging list of grievances, that Barrie told the firm “that a new Bear Mountain interchange was being built by [Bear Mountain Master Partnership] to connect to the Island highway and that construction would be complete on the interchange by the end of 2008.”
That’s a bold prediction considering Barrie’s associates on Langford city council have yet to pass the local area service bylaw that would allow construction of the interchange to begin—though the city recently began clearing the land with gusto—and B.C.’s inspector of municipalities has yet to sign off on the $25 million loan needed to finance the cloverleaf interchange.
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