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Originally Posted by Jonovision
I do not have access to allnovascotia. I was told that Frank Palermo wrote an article in it the other day looking at the Convention Centre. Could someone post it please?
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allnovascoria.com doesn't allow posting of its stories. However, I can quickly summarize it - under the guise of being neutral, he states that the towers are too tall, it is at the wrong location, it will result in poor street activity, the towers are mediocre 70's style worthy of tier II convention centres (however it will be competing with Las Vegas, he states), and it will have large, empty cavernous spaces (I think that I missed several of his
neutral points
). However, all these things can be solved with public consultations (apparently it just needs to be completely re-design, moved to a better location and converted into a performing arts centre)
PS: I re-read the story, he is not stating that it should be moved but that the current design is wrong for that location. He wants it to be useful as a performing arts centre. I remember Joe Ramia stating before HRM council that the Multifunction room can be used for concerts of 3000 - 4000 people (can some body confirm that?)