Comment 36637

By Tammany (anonymous) | Posted December 29, 2009 at 12:18:50

Councillor Bratina,

Your concerns are valid. The MIP will be a net harm to the City if it poaches the last remaining "high end" businesses from the downtown ... as I'm sure you know, the downtown does not have any of these to spare.

What a great vote of confidence it would have been if Mac had decided to build an "innovation tower" in the downtown core rather than just building a quasi-suburban business park essentially from scratch. Such a wasted opportunity and another example of the university exhibiting complete apathy towards the needs of the community it calls home. If Mac were a truly responsible institutional citizen it would have followed Yale's example (in New Haven) and worked hand-in-hand with the city to aid in bringing about a resurgence of the core. But alas ...

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