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Originally Posted by T@T
Infrastructure for that area will be very costly, KK is being sneaky about this, after the arena's are open the true scope of traffic problems will be known and of course dealt with at a huge cost to taxpayers. and then there's the cleanup costs(who will pay for it?)
Not that you want it but I'll give you my opinion anyway 
That area should be cleaned up and used similar to east village, with the way our road systems are in this city we need more places to live closer to the downtown core.
I would put this massive project up on the hill at firepark, 5 minutes from downtown, right off of deerfoot tr and already on the LRT line, this area(Barlow/Memorial could also be revitalized with hotels,bars, condo's etc. |
No developer is touching west village to pay for any cleanup. And no entertainment district businesses would want to be outside of the downtown/beltline area, the Albert Park crowd notwithstanding
. Firepark doesn't have the same access to businessmen who spend the after-work bucks that this area would. It's isolated and surrounded by warehouses and industrial sites, which would all require massive private developer risk money to develop into hotels and condos in an unproven area. Plus, I gather the vast majority of season ticket holders are in the SW and NW, not the NE.
Really, the Firepark area (including Max Bell especially) is almost too big - you couldn't develop it all and it would be another arena surrounded by nothing.