like what Adam said in the original thread, there was no website, no detailed information. It was a large investment with very little information. The only plans were in the application to the city and even then they were very minimal. For water and waste water, detailed plans would need to be sent to the province. And the guy wanted regulatory approval by May 15 2007.
This topic just intrigues me because it was a grand idea and had some very interesting features that would of been great. But so little information on the project and the guy. And even today (2020), there is no information about this guy. If he was who he said he was there should be much more information. Other projects? There were many here who were all for it even with the lack of information.
An article from a Brandon 125 paper with how things went.
http://docshare01.docshare.tips/files/7764/77641092.pdf
'2007
In March of this year,
Brandon residents were introduced
to Yogesh Goradia and
his plan to build what became
known as a “mini-city” on the southeast edge of Brandon.
“What I have proposed is
something I would say is pretty
unusual,” Goradia said in an
interview from his Los Angeles
home at the time. “We are providing
almost everything — the
commercial, cultural, residential
and recreational elements.”
The Promenade Project, as
Goradia called it, would include
700 residential units with space
for 2,500 to 3,000 people. The
homes would range from large,
single-family houses with twoacre
yards to duplexes and fourplexes
to condominiums and
seniors residences.
The community would also
include an 18-hole “world-class”
golf course, a 100-room hotel
with a convention centre, movie
theatres, retail stores, restaurants
and office buildings. In addition,
there would be an 80-acre park
with an open-air amphitheatre
capable of seating 2,000 people,
as well as a 500-seat performing
arts centre, children’s park,
Japanese tea house, “centre for
research on natural healing” and
a multi-denominational worship
centre.
Goradia estimated it would
take at least 10 years and as
much as $2 billion to build. It
was a development the likes of
which Brandon — or Manitoba
for that matter — had never seen.
But the project immediately
ran into road blocks.
Mayor Dave Burgess
slammed the idea as “urban
sprawl,” saying it doesn’t fit with
the development plan for the
region. Other city councillors
and city staff backed him up.
Business leaders and many
citizens, however, stood up for
the plan, saying it would bring a
huge economic boost to the city.
The plan has since stalled.
Fed up with what he described
as red tape and political prejudice,
Goradia issued an ultimatum
to the city, saying he would
abandon the project if he didn’t
get the regulatory go-ahead by
May 15.
He has since backed off from that threat, and in a recent letter to the
Brandon Sun said the project is not
abandoned but merely “on the backburner”
for now. He is still waiting for a
decision on his application for a variance
in the rural land use designation.
Regardless of whether the
Promenade Project becomes a reality, all
accounts suggest that Brandon will continue
to grow and expand as it moves
towards its 126th anniversary and
beyond.
rfletcher@brandonsun.com'