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Originally Posted by mleblanc
Absolutely! As the hospital extension, and the rest of Robie St gets filled in this area will look completely different.
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It's common to look at projects as being in the North End, South End, downtown, etc., but Robie Street itself has a lot of projects and looks like it is turning into more of a corridor and part of the urban core rather than just a residential street that has more traffic than average. This starts down around Spring Garden Road with the College Street and Spring Garden West developments. It adds up to thousands of new residential units and millions of new square feet of built space. Robie is also to become a transit corridor.
From an urbanism perspective I think Halifax would feel a lot more expansive and interesting if the various currently semi-disconnected pedestrian nodes were connected more. The most obvious "gap" being between the Gottingen area and downtown, but there are many others. With relatively small changes you could imagine the downtown part of Spring Garden transitioning more seamlessly over to a university village feel around Coburg Road and connecting up with Quinpool more than it does. I'm curious to see how business picks up in the coming years as so many new residential units have been added and the effects of the pandemic recede.