Comment 55582

By myrcurial (registered) - website | Posted January 11, 2011 at 11:42:51

@Andrea

As much as it pains me, I'll take any modest gain over continued wallowing self-pity.

Centre Mall is a crappy kludge compared to the elegant community build it could've been - and it's still miles better than what was.

James North is pretty awesome even though the corner of James and Cannon looks like perpetual construction and omgwtfORANGE will forever be it's mark.

Wilson Two Way is a half complete semi-disaster of "traffic planning by finger-painting" which begins and ends with all of the ceremony usually reserved for bike lanes, but at least it's not still a one-way highway.

The new Farmers Market and Library complex has issues with stall appropriation and EVERYONE (Ryan and Wayne) thinks that signs would be helpful for the Library but at least we still have a library and the possibility of buying food that comes from relatively nearby.

I don't hold any misconceptions that the Ivor Wynne redevelopment will be anything wonderful or honestly even half-assed -- but it's better than a stadium on the East Mountain, or Longwood, or Burlington, or Confed -- and there's a certainty that it's going to be better than yet-another-brownfield-in-my-neighborhood should they have moved off of the site and left it to decay in the fashion that has become popular in our city.

I, for one, welcome our new-old tenants back to the middle of The Hammer.

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