A Snuneymuxw First Nation Elder beginning an opening prayer at Tuesdays announcement. (Spencer Sterritt/NanaimoNewsNOW)

By Spencer Sterritt

HOUSING PARTNERSHIP

Affordable housing project announced for Harewood properties

Dec 3, 2019 | 4:06 AM

NANAIMO — Affordable housing units will headline a vast overhaul in a focal point of Harewood through a locally driven partnership.

The Te’tuxwtun Project was officially unveiled at an event on Tuesday, Dec. 3 and will see rental units as the main focus for three properties on Fifth St. and Howard Ave.

School District 68’s Learning Alternatives program will also move to the new location while other community, parks and recreation services, including health services and child care, will round out the project.

“The Te’tuxwtun Project is but another unique partnership in which we honour the land of our ancestors as well as future generations of all peoples here in Nanaimo,” Snuneymuxw Chief Michael Wyse said in a news release.

The sites include the school district-owned land once home to the old Harewood School, City-owned greenspace adjacent to the school and the neighbouring Sanala (formally King Arhtur Court) housing complex.

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Snuneymuxw First Nation will lead the development of all three properties. The project is still in its preliminary phase with no date of completion.

The initiative also includes the City of Nanaimo and Nanaimo Ladysmith Public Schools.

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