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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
The biggest worry these days is getting hit by a crane.
That neighbourhood practically doesn't exist anymore. I was down there a few weeks ago (during the day) and it was deserted. It didn't seem like a place many people (seedy or not) would be hanging out at any time of the day. I really don't know what it's like at night, but it felt like a ghost town.
The corner store is closed down but in the window they have a picture of a product endorsed by a smiling Mary Lou Retton.
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Most of that area was bought up by stampede for expansions. The rest just north has been bought by two developers. One is Torode, who owns most of the blocks between 11th and 12th. He is building Arriva and several other projects. Just north of that is what will become 'Railtown' by Remington development (between 9th and 11th straddling the CPR tracks. The bus barns will also move and become part of that development, which will include a SE LRT station and a high speed rail station eventually. In all Railtown will have about 5000 residents plus about another 3000 on all of Torode's blocks. It will be quite dense, but really great.
I am a community planner for the community association (beltline), Seriously, the area east of 1st street will resemble Dubai in a couple of years with all the cranes. Practically every block in the area around the stampede grounds has major, major development plans. Some of the first are already being built, but there are many more on the cusp.
Nuera (2 towers), Exchange (3 towers - 1200 units), Union Square (two towers), Chocolate, Hotel Arts residential, Kahanoff Centre expansion (three towers - two residential, one commercial), Arriva (three towers), The block west of Arriva, Centuria on the Park, Skytower (being revived by a new developer), Viva, Keynote, Railtown (about 20 residential buildings of varying size.)
All these projects east of 2nd Street SW.