City Council received a report from the Economic Development Corporation’s Gateway Committee last night. Committee Chair Bill Durnford says he’s confident a four to eight month deadline to prepare conceptual plans for developing the Gateway site can be met — part of the committee’s two year mandate to come up with an Attraction Development Strategy and Business Plan for the site. When asked about whether three hoteliers on the E-D-C Gateway Committee would be considered a conflict on interest, group chair Bill Durnford quickly quashed that suggestion. Durnford says his group will stick to a waterfront development strategy that was first introduced in 1988 — it suggested that tourist attractions be built on either end of the waterfront and has resulted in the Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre, among other sites in that area. Several ideas for the development of a tourist attraction are being considered, including moving the Algoma Central Railway station onto the site. Durnford was also asked about the inclusion of alternative energy in any project idea — he is in support of incorporating green initiatives, saying they would help support any educational component of whatever attraction will be built.

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