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Originally Posted by EldrickOnIce
But not by coincidence.
It is being built, and as a result, 'they came'.
The debate is really whether that's actually 'new money' that would otherwise not exist, instead of of those projects simply being located elsewhere.
That's the part that is a stretch.
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To me, that last part is a serious cause for concern.
You don't want the west village to be drawing tax and consumer dollars away from the East Village until the east village has had a chance to fully establish itself.
It's not like a new arena will have people flying in from Vancouver to go to a Pearl Jam concert, so it's really more of a case of consumer spending that would be more spread out in the city being funneled into the west village area. Good for the West Village, bad for everywhere else.