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Originally Posted by NBNYer
The Junction is a suburban development through-and-through masquerading as an "urban village" and cannibalizing downtown.
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Why be in a suburban development downtown when you can be in a suburban development in a suburb?
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Originally Posted by MonctonRad
I wonder the same thing. I would not be at all surprised if this is a big factor in some of these moves. We should be trying to avoid any further hollowing out of the core at all costs, but aggressive panhandling, drug use in plain view of passers-by, uninhibited vagrancy and encampments in store fronts does a lot to hinder a positive urban experience in the core..........
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Is there any proof that this is the case or is this simply conjecture? Regarding businesses moving out of the core. All Canadian cities have some level of people that you describe but all of those downtowns and cores continue to exist and thrive.
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