Mayor Locke

Surrey, B.C. (Rajeev Sharma): Surrey First councillor and candidate for mayor Linda Annis, says Brenda Locke paid $114 million for the site of her proposed 10,000-seat arena, $28 million more than the assessed value. “The mayor brushed off questions and said it was a simple land swap, but when you look at the assessed value of the city property and the value of the Wesgroup Properties site, taxpayers got the short end of the stick and ended up paying $28 million more than the assessed value of the arena site,” said Annis. “The mayor needs to buy a calculator because…