After
a year of effort promoting the project and with the decline of the street's
economic strength at the time, the business group decided to delay their
initiatives for a further year until more positive economic times returned.
In 1984 with the advent of the provincial Commercial Area Improvement Program (CAIP) and a reinvigorated executive, the efforts to develop the inherent charm and pedestrian environment of the Village were re-initiated with the active support of the City of Ottawa's Economic Development and Community Development Departments.
In
the early evening on February 15, 1985, at a village reception, her worship
Mayor Marion Dewar, cut the ceremonial ribbon symbolically marking the
agreement to proceed with the Streetscape renewal Project.
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