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Originally Posted by Bigtime
Ramsay has SO much potential. We were looking at it for a while also. Lots of people involved in the community and they take great pride in it. Dealbreakers for us were:
-no close grocery store
-school situation (Ramsay school seems to just hang on)
Hopefully the SELRT when it goes ahead will act as a catalyst to get things rolling in the area (I still think Ramsay Exchange not going ahead was a damn shame). Don't really know how much more can happen in Inglewood, even if the East Village helps spurn development in that end.
East Village will really open up development in the east Beltline (especially with the 4th street underpass opening in the fall).
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I lived in Ramsay from 1999 to 2007 and although it was definitely improving in that time, it still didn't get to the point I was hoping it would. The grocery store situation sucked big time, the closest ones were the mini-Safeway on 4th St in Mission and the Co-op on 10th Ave downtown (before they tore it down). I think the school is now off of that potential closure list because they added a bunch of programs for special needs children that ran outside of regular school hours so the facility had multiple uses. That Ramsay Exchange would have been awesome, but like a lot of things around there it never panned out. Stampede week was always a bit of a gong show around there too, people parking their motor homes in front of my house and using my lawn as a park, plus all the noise from the actual grounds. The fireworks always set off peoples car alarms. It was only for that week though. Walking to Flames games was nice!
I still drive through there every once in a while and it still looks pretty much the same. I enjoyed living there, for what it's worth.