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Originally Posted by Labroco
I’m saying if you take $50,000,000 and fill it with government offices from other buildings downtown you are leaving tax paying building owners with empty buildings to fill the Bay with their own tax dollars!
CV should stick with working on infrastructure like waterfront drive, Lily Street or the Alexander docks.
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Ah. I see. But if the government offices are moving from the suburbs (MLCC), I would be more than happy to have them relocate.
Personally, I think the provincial money the U of M gets to build new buildings should be used to relocate some of their footprint back to the city. Then the money kills two birds with one stone. Urban renewal and university improvement.
CV's mandate is not to build roads. That's Public Works' job. It is to work with private owners of downtown properties to develop or redevelop their land or buildings most effectively. At least that used to be their mandate. They have been pretty successful at that over the years. Bringing the floor hockey arena and adjacent land owners on Waterfront together to create a larger project is one recent example. That wouldn't have happened without them leading it.
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