Comment 33567

By Downtown by Choice (anonymous) | Posted September 15, 2009 at 16:39:42

Great article.......bang on.

You would think that with the ability to be able to just look around and see the planning mistakes of the past half century plus that are all around downtown, that the tall foreheads that run this city would be able to start to get something right.

Granted you can't undo the damage done to Durand; the apartment buildings that blight the landscape all stand where there were once grand homes. But c'mon, you have to do something with the ridiculous one way freeways that have destroyed any sense of neighbourhood and any want to walk beside them. The unchecked urban sprawl that makes the decay of so many lower city neighbourhoods possible. The concentration of subsidizing housing and second level lodging homes in wards 1 and 2. The coming concentration of social services on the former Loretto Academy site.

An argument can be made that perhaps this CITY could do more, but the lower city, especially the core, has done it's fair share, and then some. This Connaught proprosal is nothing but corporate welfare at its finest. If these "investors" can't make it work, please, for the sake of this city, sell the building to someone else who possesses an iota of vision and who actually wants to spend some of their own money in this city.

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