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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
Anything to do with Victoria Park or the West Village?
Three or four decades is more than overnight.
Hot take. Yeah, we should just partner with the Stampede Board, because they have a long history of success. Should marry your own offspring too, right?
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I won't belabour the point with CMLC, but I'll challenge you to point out 'failure(s)' of Stampede?
There are plenty of valid reasons to be cynical about it, but on the whole it's actually a pretty impressive and special thing.
Vic Park is massively improved from the crackhouse days.
Arriva
Guardian x2
Keynote x3
Vetro
Sasso
Alura
Nuero
= 10 big condo towers and a bunch of smaller buildings and street level commercial, etc. Of course, Stampede wasn't the developer, but it's hard to argue they didn't play a big role in cleaning up the area and making it more attractive for development.
As for Stampede itself, in the last ~15 years or so it's only managed to build:
BMO Halls D-F
Stampede Casino
Western Event Centre
Performing Arts Studio
An award winning bridge
New operations building
Enmax Park
BMO/Corral expansion
17th Ave level crossing
Admittedly those aren't all homeruns, but they at least "know a thing or two about" building.