[Halifax] Parkland at the Common (6009 Quinpool) | 78 m | 25 fl | Completed

[OldDartmouthMark]

I'd rather just move away from ageism or all generalizations about people, for that matter. Time and time again in society these days so many people seem to be working hard at making divisions and driving others away through personal judgments based on race, religion, age, sexual orientation, political affiliation, etc. etc., and it's no more right now than it was when MLK gave his life in his efforts to try to change society for the better. Chances are, if your views contain anything with an 'ism' attached, it's probably not improving the conversation...

Regarding all the opposition to this project, the arguments seem even more lame than usual. There is already a tallish building and a parkade there, and it's already a high traffic area, one of the busiest in the city. What is there currently has been looking pretty run down for years and I wouldn't describe the architecture to be beautiful by any means... so tearing this down and putting in a new tall building can only be an improvement for everybody, IMHO.

So... to me it seems like an ideal location for an iconic building of 25+ levels to act as an 'entrance' to the Quinpool district. As long as the architecture and materials are of a high level (this one is still kinda 'meh' for me, but acceptable in comparison to other buildings that are going up now), then why not have a tall building in a highly-visible location, one that would be significant enough to likely be used on websites promoting Halifax in the future.

Honestly, if I lived in the neighborhood I'd be more concerned that it had great street-level amenities than how high the damn thing is. An aspect that seems to be over the heads of those arguing against it based on height.

But in terms of comments on this forum that involve age or generation, I'd be happy if we could just leave that out of the conversation. It all comes down to people who live in the area not wanting change and getting too much attention for it.

Hopefully it'll go through at 25 and we can move on.