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Originally Posted by davidcappi
Buildings like the right house are a dime a dozen in Toronto. Just take a stroll down King St west between Spadina and Niagara. As nice and sweet and local as core urban is, I’d rather see Allied or Riocan take over this block.
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We're not toronto, and we will never BE toronto - thus you might want to get into the habit of realizing that and stop constantly comparing hamilton to toronto and trying to make hamilton toronto. I realize you work in toronto, but you DO live in hamilton do you not?
Who cares if they're a dime a dozen in toronto? We're not toronto! We thus pride ourselves more in the few buildings like that that we HAVE, esp. the ones in the core, which make up the heritage footprint of the gage park area.
We aren't going to constantly reference toronto to see what THEY did to determine what WE will do - that's party why hamilton has such an insecurity problem, because everyone just sees it as "that city thats not toronto" who judges everything hamilton should be doing on what toronto is doing or has done - we are our own thing - smaller, more blue collar, and more valuing of our heritage- our heritage buildings are what makes us hamilton. We value our history in this city. It's why people shoot movies here, BECAUSE of that kinda stuff. - because we're not like every other steel and glass clone city out there.
And for all you whiners out there that call our behaviour nimbyism - if you don't like it, then LEAVE and go to toronto. We're sick of hearing it. Appreciate the city for what it has to offer, not for what you want to turn it into, which judging from a lot of your guys post is just a clone of new york or toronto with nothing but towering 35 story+ steel and glass skyscrapers. There is a reason people like to live in hamilton - they like it because it's NOT toronto.