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Details: Parent Category: Sept 2011; Category: Week ending Sept 17th, 2011; Published on Tuesday, 20 September 2011 08:23; Hits: 3211

The multi-million dollar Greater Grenville Development Project is beginning to show signs of progress with the sod turning ceremony last Friday of another component of the long awaited project. Prime Minister Tillman Thomas and his Works Minister, Joseph Gilbert turned the sod to signal the commencement of work for the $15.6m Grenville Market Square Development Project which was initiated by the former administration.

The ceremony witnessed by Finance Minister, Nazim Burke, and all of the three Members of Parliament of the governing National Democratic Congress from St. Andrew’s - Sylvester Quarless, Alleyne Walker and Patrick Simmons.

Work has already begun on one component of the project, the abattoir at Mirabeau, St. Andrew’s at a cost of $5.6m. It is expected that very soon work will commence on the bus terminal, and drainage in Grenville to deal with an age-old problem of flooding.

An elated Prime Minister Thomas called for the restoration of the popularity of the Grenville Market. He recalled that as far back as the 1960’s and right up to the 1980’s, the Grenville Market was the most popular one in Grenada with people in every Parish making use of it.

Prime Minister Thomas said he expects the project to restore the popularity that the Grenville Market once enjoyed. The project which was being initiated by the former New National Party (NNP) Government of Dr. Keith Mitchell had some setbacks following the July 8, 2008 General Elections.

However, Prime Minister Thomas said because of its nature and the variety of the persons who would be affected it became a complex project. He indicated that the significance of the project is job creation, economic activities, and adding to the capital value of the Town of Grenville.

Prime Minister Thomas called on everyone to see themselves as having a stake in the project.

“This project is our project, and we must claim it, we must take ownership of it and do whatever we could to support. Wherever we see weaknesses we must identify the weaknesses so it could be corrected,” he told the gathering.

The market facility which will comprise a two-storey building will be built by Mike Quinn of Quinn Company. The project is being financed by the Government of Grenada through a loan from the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), as well as local government counterpart financing to the tune of $15,617,946.06.

The market will comprise three main components including the new reinforced two-storey concrete building which would be set out on the perimeter north, south and eastern boundaries.

Rehabilitation work will take place on the central structure, and there will be the construction of a new single storey reinforced concrete meat refrigeration building.

The facility will be designed to accommodate four cafeterias, internal and external vendors’ stalls, garbage collection and disposal areas, electrical storerooms, male and female washrooms with showers, as well as change rooms at both levels, handicapped washroom areas, and a refrigeration building with two cold storage areas.

The project, to be completed in the next 18 months, will also provide onsite treatment plant for waste and sewerage, together with water storage. In an effort to have the work on the project carried out smoothly, government has invested just about $700,000 into three temporary facilities that would be used by those who would be affected during construction on the market facility.

They are a temporary abattoir at the old banana shed at Mirabeau, the Grenville meat market at the old fish market which would now be used as the vending site for the meat that would be slaughtered at Mirabeau, and the Grenville vegetable market that would now be stationed at the GCNA Building.