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15 stories exploring community development across the city.
Across Brandon and the wider Westman region, pragmatic redevelopment, civic partnerships, and grassroots cultural projects are remaking public spaces, weaving economic resilience with community identity and creating new paths for youth and reconciliation.
In Brandon, entrepreneur Amara Patel has transformed a boarded-up block into a mixed-use hub pairing small manufacturers, food entrepreneurs, and training programs—creating jobs, preserving heritage, and pushing a bold, locally rooted growth model across Westman.
A grassroots coalition in Brandon is transforming vacant storefronts, riverfront spaces, and heritage sites into community assets. Neighbours, Indigenous partners and small businesses are crafting a pragmatic vision for Westman's future prosperity.
A coalition of residents, planners, and Indigenous leaders in Westman is remaking neglected riverfronts and vacant lots into affordable homes, green spaces, and economic opportunities — a measured model of rural regional development with human stakes.
A deep dive into the ambitious Westman development initiative, a community-led example of creative vision and purposeful planning.