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Originally Posted by Harley613
Completely 110% disagree. The odd thing
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Like every hardware store?
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has left the core as part of the natural ebbs and flows of a city, but with all the new residential will come new institutions, retail and entertainment.
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Yes, it will. Eventually.
In the meantime: hollowing out.
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It is the opposite of hollowing out. Go sit out front of Farm Boy on Metcalfe at any time of day, that area is bustling.
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It is! Anyone interested in urbanism should take note of the benefit of and opportunities associated with being on that fringe between residential and intensive non-residential land uses. It keeps that spot, and other similar locations hopping.
But overall: she's hollowing out.
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The area around 400 Albert and Moon will be the same when those projects are finished.
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There's that future tense again, but in the meantime, we are at risk of losing the downtown Y. That's a hollowing out.
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It's hard to find a place in Ottawa's core that isn't in the process of growing and revitalizing. I have never found Ottawa as exciting as it is right now with all of the investment and growth happening in the core.
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It's also hard to find a place to go grab a lunch to bring back to your desk.
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