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Depending on definition I'd pick the old art gallery proposal (dead) or Spring Garden West (demo so I think yet to break ground), or failing that, the St. Pat's redevelopment. The art gallery would have filled the bigger waterfront hole, SGW is pretty nice looking and is important now that the row of buildings there is gone, and St. Pat's is pretty much required for that little blob of density around Robie and Quinpool to cohere into something significant.

I think the city is going to feel a lot bigger once some current projects are done, assuming they're completed, and the scale is a bit hard to appreciate. Having a 40 storey building by the bridge on the Dartmouth side will make the city look a lot bigger. Same thing goes for looking down Spring Garden Road and seeing 30 storey buildings off in the distance. And the new hospital will be very large and busy.

There's also the possibility of something really good for Cogswell if an entity like Crombie decides to build a marquee project there, particularly if council does adjust the ramparts limits, which would make sense for that area.

I remember thinking about some not so great aspects of Halifax like the prominent empty lot at Barrington and George or the parking lots just off Spring Garden Road that made the city feel hit-or-miss walking around and a bit like a small town. The small town aspect is mostly gone now, or will be once currently under construction buildings are done. There will still be some strangely empty or underdeveloped areas but they'll be more the exception rather than the norm.