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Originally Posted by FarmerHaight
Maybe I am not creative enough, but I am not sure what alternative commercial/industrial use would find a home on the current campus. I suppose large swaths of the Central Industrial may sit dormant until a developer with deep pockets is sufficiently motivated to redevelop the whole thing into a new mixed-use community?
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This is exactly why the City and province should have a plan and funds set aside for the redevelopment. If the $500M budget to move is real, putting 5-10% of that amount into rejuvenation of the current campus area seems prudent.
The City should push the province and USask to reserve some funding to support some sort of development. Not sure what that would be either, maybe the idea of social services above is a good option. Waiting a lifetime for a developer with deep pockets is not a strategy, it is a cop out. We have enough dormant land in the city's core as it is.