Cape Breton Regional Municipality has cleared the way for the construction of a new hotel on the downtown waterfront in Sydney, N.S.
Council voted Wednesday to close a pair of old road plans that were never built and declare some property surplus in the area where the Royal Cape Breton Yacht Club used to be.
Before the vote, CBRM Mayor Amanda McDougall told Mainstreet Cape Breton that the legal moves will allow Doucet Developments of Bedford to buy the property and get shovels in the ground by late this summer or early fall.
“In eight years on council, we’ve seen projects proposed to us time after time,” she said. “The fact that this is moving forward and shovels are going to be hitting that ground soon, I’m so happy, I’m so proud and it’s…