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Originally Posted by jigglysquishy
Rose and 11th is the perfect location.
Most vacant block downtown.
Access to Broad directly.
Across from a parkade.
Immense infill opportunity around.
No heritage buildings demolished.
Ample restaurants around.
Ideal transit access.
It's the single best option in the city. Any other location will be viewed as a failure for generations.
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Ok. So playing devils advocate...
Wouldn't the perfect location be where...
-there is ample surface parking with NO parking structures required in order to accommodate parking,
-there is an existing arena aka existing various infrastructure already in place,
-there is an existing exhibition center,
-there is an existing Stadium,
- the land is CITY owned which then negates the need to negotiate with a private land owner
- there is NO road/traffic infrastructure re-routing or re-configuring
My humble opinion...speaking from an urban planning/design standpoint building on the Ex-Taylor field location and encouraging development on the West side of downtown makes a helluva lot more sense between the restaurants/bars/relationship with Cathederal and the fact a grocery store doesn't become an immediate necessity as there is one 3 blocks down 13th from Albert. The east side of the downtown core is a lot grungier, takes a lot more to get people to be excited about living Downtown.
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