Tim Houston announces a freeze on provincial investing in the project, causing an indefinite pause.
Tim Houston announced today that the province’s plan to foot part of the bill for the new Art Gallery of Nova Scotia—a project announced in 2019, slated to begin building this year on what’s now a parking lot on the end of Salter Street—will be put on an indefinite hold. The gallery (which is meant to replace the current AGNS at 1723 Hollis Street) was originally expected to cost about $137 million.…