Anyone who went to the Flames games in the 80,90, and early 2000 knows what Vic Park and East Village was like.
It was sketchy as heck. There was basically Ribtor, Orange lofts, parking lots and dilapidated drug houses.
I walked home from Orange to the Riverfront in 2004 and my girlfriend freaked out I would do that at 1AM. She was right too, just a sea of parking lots and sketch bags in the pitch black.
How they turned it around in frankly less than 10 years is nothing short of amazing.
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