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Originally Posted by Wolf13
Are you pretending money doesn't exist?
I get that underground is a much better location, but you're adding 33% cost to a building of that size. That's just irresponsible.
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How so? He just highlighted the dilemna.
The other Winnipeg thing to do is to say nothing is good enough except the perfect solution, which costs too much money. Winnipeggers love telling these seemingly bottomless faceless moneybags how to overspend.
Going underground costs way too much. Since (I think) this centre was built long before any RT was actually expected to spur on development, this lot should have faced the street.
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It was completed like in 2017, well after the vision/construction/completion of the RT line a block away from it. Well after other RT related construction/development was envisioned/under way at other locations down the line.
And if your excuse for an embarrassment on the river like this is "budget" then perhaps a government funded/subsidized youth service corporation shouldn't have built on the river?
Could have sold it to a private company, say someone like 300 Assiniboine directly across the river, who could then build something that includes parking but not a surface lot directly on the riverbank, say someone like 300 Assinboine directly across the river. Thats not a, as you put it, "nothing is good enough except the perfect solution, which costs too much money" type of attitude, its more... Why did tax dollars help damage the beauty of our river while a private company managed to do much better?