{"id":59697,"date":"2023-11-15T14:48:18","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T19:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.szpin.ca\/?p=59697"},"modified":"2023-11-15T14:48:18","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T19:48:18","slug":"pickering-city-bid-to-purchase-frenchmans-bay-is-rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.szpin.ca\/pickering-city-bid-to-purchase-frenchmans-bay-is-rejected\/","title":{"rendered":"PICKERING: City bid to purchase Frenchman&#8217;s Bay is rejected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"59698\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.szpin.ca\/pickering-city-bid-to-purchase-frenchmans-bay-is-rejected\/2023-11-15_14h41_24\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.szpin.ca\/%77%70%2d%63%6f%6e%74%65%6e%74\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2023-11-15_14h41_24.png?fit=670%2C390&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"670,390\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2023-11-15_14h41_24\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.szpin.ca\/%77%70%2d%63%6f%6e%74%65%6e%74\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2023-11-15_14h41_24.png?fit=300%2C175&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.szpin.ca\/%77%70%2d%63%6f%6e%74%65%6e%74\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2023-11-15_14h41_24.png?fit=640%2C373&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-59698 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.szpin.ca\/%77%70%2d%63%6f%6e%74%65%6e%74\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2023-11-15_14h41_24-300x175.png?resize=300%2C175&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.szpin.ca\/%77%70%2d%63%6f%6e%74%65%6e%74\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2023-11-15_14h41_24.png?resize=300%2C175&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.szpin.ca\/%77%70%2d%63%6f%6e%74%65%6e%74\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2023-11-15_14h41_24.png?resize=150%2C87&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.szpin.ca\/%77%70%2d%63%6f%6e%74%65%6e%74\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2023-11-15_14h41_24.png?w=670&amp;ssl=1 670w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>It is unfortunate that the City&#8217;s proposed bid for the purchase of Frenchman&#8217;s Bay was too low,\u00a0<em>TWICE.\u00a0<\/em>The City put in a second bid at a higher level when its first bid was rejected. The higher bid was rejected also.<\/p>\n<p>The issue is likely one of realty or property greed as the city&#8217;s final bid was based on a proper appraisal of the property value at comparable market values.<\/p>\n<p>For more details about this story, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.durhamregion.com\/news\/pickering-s-bid-to-buy-frenchman-s-bay-is-denied\/article_1c245cb2-bd10-5157-bde5-31aa3d6083ac.html\">KRISTEN CALLIS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is unfortunate that the City&#8217;s proposed bid for the purchase of Frenchman&#8217;s Bay was too low,\u00a0TWICE.\u00a0The City put in a second bid at a higher level when its first bid was rejected. The higher bid was rejected also. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.szpin.ca\/pickering-city-bid-to-purchase-frenchmans-bay-is-rejected\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":59117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1039],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pickering"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<title>PICKERING: City bid to purchase Frenchman&#039;s Bay is rejected : The Szpinner<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.szpin.ca\/pickering-city-bid-to-purchase-frenchmans-bay-is-rejected\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PICKERING: City bid to purchase Frenchman&#039;s Bay is rejected : The Szpinner\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It is unfortunate that the City&#8217;s proposed bid for the purchase of Frenchman&#8217;s Bay was too low,\u00a0TWICE.\u00a0The City put in a second bid at a higher level when its first bid was rejected. 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