[David A]

The green house was demolished as the land was claimed by Parks and is going to be used as public open space as the Capital City Downtown Plan (or something similar) called for a pocked park in the area (I believe).

... to add to all the other empty lots in the area? There must be a half a dozen to a dozen. We need buildings and people living here not more empty lots!

 

[David A]

Yuuuup, can't have their cake and eat it to, in terms of Downtown investment and construction. Lots of hypocrites out there.

There is such a thing as staging projects and not doing everything all at once. It is called planning or maybe more precisely good planning.

 

[David A]

Left over from the City's mowing-through-Rossdale days, wanting to turn that portion of the River Valley back into a pseudo-pristine nature-way. These should be issues for the current slate of wanna-be Mayoral candidates who seem to have focused on unresolvable issues instead of issues that would make a difference to the physical City.

You would have thought the mow through Rossdale bureaucrats probably from the 1980's would be retiring by now, but perhaps they mentored others. Bad ideas can be like weeds, lingering, stubborn and hard to get rid of.

However, personally I want a mayor who can deal with the difficult issues and also have some more positive vision for such neglected areas. I don't feel it should be either or.

 

[The_Cat]

I think the Greenbrier/Dwayne’s Place is looking really bad. I wonder about the piles.

 

[kcantor]

It seems to me that lots of adults in Edmonton have been having serious conversations about all our downtown problems for the last several years.

I am not sure how seriously our governments have been listening and if the actions they have been taking have been effective enough.

For the last several years???

Try for the last several decades. They - and their administrations - listen but it rarely leads to effective action albeit I'm sure there are rooms full of various reports and recommendations that get done and then never come off the shelf again.

 

[IanO]

 

[wormwood]

ATB and Telus are super underrated architecturally. I love them both but would love them more with some sand blasting.

 

[wormwood]

If I wasn't married with kids I'd be living in the McLeod Building.