[Halifax] The Roy (1650 Granville) | 71 M | 22 FL | Completed

[Keith P.]

Originally Posted by Drybrain

A city needs a wide variety of building scales and frontages, and narrower ones (in a healthy mix of old and new buildings) create opportunities for a wide variety of businesses and other uses. Newer buildings tend to have large frontages (not in every case--ugly as the Trillium is, it works well at sidewalk level).

Even when new buildings are well-scaled, it's still important to keep a variety of older buildings around. As much as the Spring Garden West development will likely be an architectural improvement (except for the loss of the Coburg Apartments, which seems like a lost opportunity for re-use) it will probably have a far more upscale mix of businesses, and perhaps a higher concentration of chains, than what's there now, due tiny the higher overhead of the new building). That's not necessarily bad, and we need somebody that. But if we have too much of that develipment all at once, we run the risk of tipping the balance too far to new buildings. I think it'd be pretty plainly a bad thing to see the small-scaled frontages of Halifax become overwhelmingly consolidated into large frontages. We need a diversity of building types and ages to ensure a healthy mix of businesses.

You worry too much.