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Originally Posted by 442scotty
I think the west village idea with a little design tweaking was an awesome idea.. expensive? Yep but the city has no problem spending money on stupid art , bicycle lanes used by a few dozen people at most and let's not forget the $$ spent on the downtown library to be used by maybe ? A couple hundred people?
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Throw in the library, the bike lanes, the art, hell, the Peace Bridge and you're still short nine figures (over $250M) assuming a big government funded project doesn't have overruns and the remediation and traffic realignment costs are on the cheap end. Where is it coming from?
But what's another tax hike between hockey fans, eh?
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The west village is an awesome idea that with some tweaking would bring a lot of people and money downtown as a complete entertainment district. Nenshi should have thought about it but he didn't and it's burning a hole in his butt.
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West Village has had an ARP for a while, and developing it as an entertainment district cannibalizes the city's focus of redevelopment: The East Village. The city knew this when the told the Flames not to look at a West Village proposal, long before CalgaryNEXT was proposed.