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Originally Posted by Drybrain
In the course of my job, I was doing some photography for for one of the universities in town. The idea was to get some city imagery from Citadel Hill, but I was instructed to shoot so as not to include the Nova Centre, because a lot of the profs hate it on political and/or aesthetic grounds.
They'd literally like to pretend it doesn't exist, and I had to wonder how long it'll take some people to just accept that it's there, like it or not.
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I think once they start hosting events there (especially events geared at locals, not out-of-town conventioneers) attitudes might start to change. To be honest, the majority of people I know who have an opinion on the Nova Centre are against it and the commonly-agreed-upon (though not necessarily accurate) narrative tends to be:
- The Nova Centre is a huge violation of planning rules
- The Nova Centre is the result of government subsidizing a private developer, basically just giving away our tax dollars to make some obscenely rich person even richer
- Convention centres are a huge waste of money, and we don't need a new one
- The Nova Centre is destroying the character of Argyle Street/Downtown
- It is "corporate" and "for the wealthy fat cats" and is therefore bad
- It had 0 support outside of the wealthy fat cat circle and is being imposed on us anyway
(I don't necessarily agree with any of these statements but to many people I know, most of these are considered basic facts)
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