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Originally Posted by GarryEllice
What we're ruing is not the loss of a residential building, it's the permanent waste of a prominent site with an ill-designed and mostly empty park. A mixed-use development next to (not on) the site of the fort could have drawn on the energy of the Forks (back entrance right across Main) and really helped to kickstart the transformation of South Main that many of us are waiting for, while also bringing more people to the historic site.
And the design of the park really is horrible, as if they specifically tried to keep people from using it. There isn't even a connection to the corner of Main and Assiniboine. Actually today I saw a man in a business suit clambering over the planters and shrubbery to enter the park from that corner. Embarrassing.
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My, you must have been mortified. I can’t imagine the pain this has caused you over the years. Will it ever end?