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Originally Posted by Draftsman
You are absolutely right. And those NIMBY's now love the new school and they all shop at Safeway, and I am sure they will shop at Sobey's liquor too. Bunch of hippocrates.
Cathedral's old buildings are like the proverbial lipstick on the pig. The pig being the old buildings and the murals being the lipstick.
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Every city has its own neighbourhood like this, and they seem to attract a unique sort of NIMBY. In Ottawa it was the Glebe residents freaking out about development of Lansdowne Park - rebuilding the condemned half of the Stadium, along with condos, restaurants, shopping, etc. Residents freaked out! Guess what? the area is as alive, or more now. And I know some of the NIMBYs who now absolutely love the development, and the associated civic infrastructure spending that came with it. They'll still grumble a bit - but they take full use of the Whole Foods, and festivals, and restaurants that arrived on an otherwise dead parcel of land (essentially their version of our Exhibition grounds, before the Stadium, soccer pitches, and rinks... which were more or less unused for vast periods of the year, and falling into terrible disrepair).
The development absolutely increased every Glebe resident's property value. Significantly.