Kosy123
Senior Member
Bullying Ian and Westrich into building towers downtown is a forum tradition at this point lmao.Sir, I work for the provincial government. Please point me to these left wing policies you speak of; I can report them to help meet our mandatory red tape reduction targets
How could we have 200+ active files on the go at once—in just my ministry—if we're sitting on our hands until one decision is made, before moving onto the next issue? And how do you propose we clamour for policy change? Go on strike until government lets us email external parties without three layers of approval for the draft?
I hate to break it to you, but the executives hate it as much as the staff; they have experts (like, actual engineers and whatnot who come from the private sector). They would love nothing more than for their staff to do their jobs with more independence because it'd save everyone's time and let those managers get more things done. It's the politicians who are really risk adverse; it just takes one mistake to spark a whole scandal, and when your job relies on public opinion you become very scandal-adverse.
Now, back to the topic at-hand, I'm excited to see how downtown is doing in five years. The VLW will be finished, there'll be more residential units opened, a huge park, the first buildings at Village at Ice (if we're lucky and council approves the agreement), and perhaps some initial investments through the expanded CRL. I'm hopeful that the momentum we're seeing right now will continue; maybe even to the point where @IanO can bully Westrich into building a tower downtown
We are probably gonna see a much different downtown once VLW opens and we see the first results from the next wave of residential buildings that come up in the next 2-3 years. If all goes well, we’ve got the potential for 5,000 new units downtown in the next decade along with probably thousands more in downtown adjacent areas.
