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Originally Posted by urban1
Shops, boutiques, galleries, theatres, restaurants, cafes, live music venues, and lounges would "urbanize" and revitalize the downtown.
Cowboys... people go in... drink for 5 hours.... then go eat a hotdog at the hotdog cart... loiter the streets... then go home. This doesnt do much to "urbanize" anything.
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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
"Not In My Back Yard" doesn't apply here. It applies to something that we actually need, but nobody wants to be near it.
"NIMBY" means "Oh, sure, we need a homeless shelter, but it wouldn't work well in my neighbourhood" or "Yes, the airport should expand, to the north, not into our residential area" or "I agree, we need a new firestation, but not in my backyard".
Nobody says "Yes, the city needs a giant drinking warehouse that attracts the city's dumbest, loudest and most irresponsible people, but not in my backyard".
And no, this would not be part of "urbanizing" downtown. It would probably have the reverse effect. A giant, well-oiled, garbage, blood, sirens and puke generating circus plopped into the middle of it isn't going to urbanize anything.
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Are you guys nuts? It has so much to do with Urbanzing downtown. Take Whistler for example (yes I know its a party town and all that) but the downtown area they have is something that Calgary needs too. Its the place to go, and Calgary needs that. If all the bars were in a more centralized spot things would go alot smoother.
I'm not saying mix everything up and have everything in one spot, but I'm saying have different sections of downtown be different things.
S.E. corner of downtown by the stampede is becoming the area where condo's are going up. So continue to allow that to be a living area. Then pick a spot where a bunch of bars can go. And a spot where a bunch of nicer restaurants can go.
I don't see why everyone is tearing apart the meatheads in this thread. We've all been drunk, and we've all been that age (i currently am that age, and probably drunk) but my point is
Cowboys is going to find a spot, and no matter where it is, someone is going to say it is to close to where they live.