Comment 97055

By jason (registered) | Posted January 22, 2014 at 12:26:44

Sad to see other cities making huge strides in their urban rebirths, with their school boards, sports teams and higher institutions leading the charge and recognizing their massive role in revitalization. Here, we have two big institutions doing the complete opposite. Harming these neighbourhoods in a drastic way. The sad part is, we all knew this is what the 'Pan Am precinct' would end up looking like. It's Code Red. They can get away with slathering it in asphalt.
Imagine the city-building that could be going on right now if the stadium was rising overlooking our beautiful harbour. If the IW neighbourhood was seeing a new urban, mixed-use neighbourhood with grocery/retail amenities, park space and high quality housing being added into the heart of their neighbourhood. If the board took up the offer to locate their HQ at the Cannon Knitting Mills instead of wanting lunch-time access to Limeridge Mall on our dime. If any semblance of leadership could have been found over the past 4 years to further our now-defunct LRT project. the LRT route would have connected all of these pieces seamlessly.

Instead we get more of the same city-destroying that our institutions have been doing for years. And the worst part is, we're the ones paying for it all.

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