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Originally Posted by FlamesFanTrev
Alot of assumptions made here. I was mainly drawing a parallel between the hockey arena battle and the parking structure with offices. Maybe my intention was too covert for you? Put your parking structure wherever the hell you want. I am not going to be part of the <~2% of the poulation that will be gaining any "public benefit" from it.
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Sigh. I live downtown, but have no intention of using new overpasses in the city's far southeast. I still pay for those like you do, even though I'm not one of the '2%' who will ever use it. I don't bitch about it; that's part of living in a big city. You pay for things as cities grow and develop. Such a wild, wild concept.
A parkade is a piece of municipal infrastructure and can act as a source of income for the city, thereby providing more ammo to reduce the necessity of raising your taxes. If you think you're being shafted because 10 cents of your yearly taxes are going to a useful downtown parkade that people will use for a variety of reasons, I've got a cloud for you to yell at. Get over it.
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Originally Posted by FlamesFanTrev
As for what I have against the building, I actually feel, personally, that innovation should be left to the private sector that generally handles innovation more efficiently then the public sector. Thats my opinion, and before you ask or make insinuations, I have my name on 2 patents, so I do infact have some experience to draw on. Managed to come up with some pretty good ideas without a think tank or an incubation space. I have participated in the GOC SRED program, and have seen first hand how inefficently those development grants are handled. Otherwise, the forward thinking design of the building, that it can be converted to something else is..... Neat. Wish someone had come up with this re-new-vation concept before.
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Congrats, you have two patents. That doesn't mean that incubator spaces are unnecessary for entrepreneurial development; if that was the case, you wouldn't have them being built all over the world and supported by governments, private businesses, and economic development groups such as Calgary Economic Development touting their benefits. Also, I'm sure CMLC isn't just building an incubator space willy nilly; they have a plan and it isn't just to get you personally riled up so you can rant on a message board. Lots of people use these types of spaces; just because you didn't doesn't make them irrelevant.