A development company says construction will start next year on two new apartment towers on the downtown waterfront in Sydney, N.S.

On Tuesday, Doucet Developments manager Douglas MacLennan told councillors for the Cape Breton Regional Municipality that the company is planning an eight-storey building and a nine-storey building that will contain a total of 166 residential units, 21 commercial units and parking garage for more than 400 vehicles.

The development, which the company calls Edgewater, will create more opportunities for businesses and residents, just like the new Nova Scotia Community College construction did a few blocks away, said Coun. Eldon MacDonald, whose district includes the downtown.

“There’s going to be a major amount of spin-off from this,” he said. “We see just from the campus getting announced down the street here on [how] that did energize our community. This is just going to energize it even more.”

MacLennan said the first phase will take three years to build and will hopefully become an attraction for cruise ship passengers and will draw visitors down to the waterfront.

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