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Originally Posted by TbayON
Well hopefully once a couple pioneering spirits put down some roots there, others will follow suit. The access improvements have made a considerable difference in the attractiveness of the park, I have no idea why those weren't done when Innova was originally opened up. One of the many great planning mysteries of Thunder Bay I guess.
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It's what we do bed. The Hospital, the DSSAB, Innova Park, the expressways, City Hall, Victoriaville's parkade, Prince Arthur's Landing, most of our newer schools, are all built small, with the "option to expand". The irony of that being that they all ended up being too small before they even opened.
TBRHSC should be almost twice the size (and there is actually the possibility of building a separate, similarly large building parallel to it to the east), the DSSAB had more provincial services downloaded to it during construction, Innova Park always had plans for those access roads but they ignored them at the start, the expressways were both supposed to be controlled access freeways (as was part of Balsam), City Hall's renovation was supposed to add more space than it did (and the building was supposed to be capable of adding more storeys but during the renovations they found out it couldn't actually support them because of shoddy construction, so it's a good thing we didn't go that route), Victoriaville's Parkade is apparently tiny (
), Prince Arthur's Landing is only just now, 40 years later, realizing it's hotels and condos vision from the 1960s (albeit in a greatly reduced form), and schools are expanded every summer now.
We have this mentality here that we're a smaller city than we really are, so we don't need anything bigger than what would be necessary for a city of 50,000 people. Except that cities of 50,000 people, like North Bay, have bigger hospitals, bigger malls, bigger schools, bigger parkades, bigger city hall, better freeways, than us.
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