Buchanan Square gets a little more work, completion delayed

Improper installation delays project

By Jeremy Shepherd ● Coquitlam ● October 28, 2021

photo supplied Tri-City Photography Club

A contractor is back at work on Coquitlam’s Buchanan Square after parts of the plaza had to be torn up due to some improper installation, according the city’s capital projects director Scott Groves.

Originally set to be finished last summer, the likely completion date for the plaza has been delayed until “before Christmas,” according to Groves.

“I am just saying ‘before Christmas’ at the moment because we are getting disappointed by supply chain issues over and over again on many projects in the construction industry. Some we can work around, but this is one that we just have to wait for the supplier and installer to deliver,” Groves explained.

The partially completed renovation work includes new lighting, seating, a shade structure as well as games and a slide.

No extra cost: The current plaza work comes at no extra cost to the city as the error was found within the warranty period, Groves added.

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Jeremy Shepherd

A chiropractor and a folk singer, after having one great kid, decided to push their luck and have one more, a boy they named Jeremy Shepherd.

Shepherd grew up around Blue Mountain Park in Coquitlam, following a basketball around and trying his best to get to the NBA (it didn’t work out, at least not yet).

With no career plans after graduating Porter Elementary school, Jeremy Shepherd pursued higher education at Como Lake Middle School and eventually, Centennial High School.

Approximately 1,000 movies and several beers later in life, Shepherd made a change.

Having done nothing worth writing, he decided to see if he could write something worth reading.

Since graduating journalism school at Langara College, Shepherd has been a reporter, editor and, reluctantly, a content provider for community newspapers around Metro Vancouver for more than 10 years.

He worked with dogged reporters, eloquently indignant curmudgeons and creative photographers, all of whom shared a little of what they knew.

Now, as he goes about the business of raising two fascinating humans alongside a wonderful partner, Shepherd is delighted to report news and tell stories in the Tri-Cities.

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