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Originally Posted by blueandgoldguy
Again the bolded is flat out false no matter how many times you repeat it. Downtown development was stalled out in 2004 primarily because the city itself was stagnant...very little growth from the late 80s to the early 2000s. The Bell MTS Centre happened to be constructed during the beginning of a period in which the city began experiencing population growth...mostly due to international immigration. Some of those and some millenials (due to different values than their predecessors) have chosen to live in the downtown or inner city...and that's not necessarily because of the jets return.
It's naive and beyond simplistic to base the the growth of downtown Winnipeg as a result of the Bell MTS Centre and the Jets  |
What downtown development prior to 2011 was there that was private sector driven, besides a few condo buildings on Waterfront Dr? There was nothing on the scale that it is today.