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Originally Posted by DowntownBooster
Do we take that risk though? Having those 2,300 jobs in downtown is nothing to sneeze at. Is it right to be telling Skip that they can't move here or there and try to restrict them to certain spots only? Look at what happened to 100 Main. There was opposition to a 30 storey apartment tower and we ended up with a park that no one uses anyway. Is it the Winnipeg way to discourage certain developments so that the opportunity is lost altogether? We know there is a certain commercial real estate firm in town that always tries to draw business from downtown to the suburbs or to the Polo Park area. I wouldn't want to see that happen again with Skip. Who knows, there could also be truth to the rumours that they could be considering locations outside of Winnipeg like Calgary or Toronto. While it's not a good idea to throw caution to the wind when giving consideration to proposed sites for development, it's also not always right to reject them outright either.
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As much as I think UFG is dumb, that project for 100 Main just moved to 300 Assiniboine.
And yeah, it's not like you're explicitly saying "sorry, no Skip here" – they don't own the property, and the property already has a development plan and buyer. It's no different than any other organization looking for land to develop, sometimes the one they want won't be available, so you look at others. If I'm Skip, and in a rush, the huge headache that would be developing Parcel 4 makes no sense to me when there are huge swaths of empty lots on the other side of the tracks, and even better, beside their current HQ in the Exchange. From a business and employee perspective, The Forks doesn't even make sense – they're trying to consolidate down from 5 buildings, there's no way they'll be allowed to make a single one big enough at The Forks.
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