[St. John's] The Official Project Thread

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To be fair, they tried a public space in that location before and it wasn’t utilized at all. They built those little kiosks and the place might as well have been a vacant lot or surface parking lot. Granted, it was a pretty cheap looking design and I’m sure it could have been done much better.

In my opinion Harbour drive is one of the most poorly planned streets in the city; if not the worst. It’s right in our downtown, it’s on the waterfront and yet it offers nothing but parking garages, surface parking lots and the backs of buildings. At this point anything that gets people down there will help. In my experience harbor drive is an all-around unenjoyable place to spend time. It’s always colder because you’re near the water, it offers no shops/bars/restaurants/coffee shops, it smells bad, etc. So I can see planners having hesitation when it comes to spending on public spaces down there when most people don’t go down there for anything more than a parking spot.

In my opinion these buildings well help a street that desperately needs it.