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MCADAM, N.B. — A year after a tiny village in New Brunswick announced it would sell 16 housing lots for one dollar apiece, the mayor says the novel bid to attract newcomers to McAdam has been an unqualified success.

“It was a great idea,” Ken Stannix said in an interview Tuesday. “But more importantly, it’s the ideas and the energy that these new people are bringing to the community and the province as a whole.”

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As of this week, 10 of the lots have been sold and the remaining six have deals pending.

With one lot recently cleared for construction, Stannix figures there will be 16 new homes standing on the community’s east side within the next three years.

“I think the approach that we took is going to work out for us,” Stannix said, taking a break from decorating the town’s historic train station for an annual Christmas event.

In all, more than 600 people applied to buy one of the dirt-cheap lots after they went on the market amid much fanfare in November 2018.