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Originally Posted by urban_planner
Forge and forster also reports that Lamb has also bought 73, 84, 89 and 91 hunter Street east. This is between Catherine Street and John Street.
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So is he just gonna build around the walk in clinic? Or will yet another old house in the core fall victim to some new bland boxy development..
They claim they want walkability in this city but you get all these huge podiums with big foyers and no smaller close together businesses to peruse - this is why king st and king william work great in the core - they are tightly packed businesses you can walk along - imo anything along arterial roads should have businesses packed every 5-10 meters.
It's one reason I hate the stretch from the ellen faircloud building to the end of the AGH - there is just.. nothing - it feels like you have to walk for miles just to get to a business on the south side. Imo downtown ends at king and james. Everything else beyond that is just car only accessible stretches. No actual businesses until like hess st, and that tiny cluster of ones on the north side after jackson ends.
You need walkability in this city, not just plopping down condos with empty base podiums on every damn parking lot.. help the small ma and pa shops that are what have always made hamilton hamilton. You're just left with a ton of new people living here complaining there is nothing to do and nowhere to shop. No grocery stores. No drug stores. No fitness centers. Everyone isn't gonna drive a car but they'll have to walk blocks and blocks just to get their basic amenities.
Back in the day everyone worked in the core - either at the department stores, banks, govt jobs or factories. Many of the areas downtown had places you could eat at during your lunchtime, and maybe you'd peruse the farmers market on weekends - it was all self contained to actually support a thriving community in the core. We've ruined all that. I hope that our injecting so many people into the core will actually cause businesses they can work at, that supply affordable wages to allow them to actually work IN the core, to set up shop in the core, and rebuild that self sustaining model.
Remember there used to be woolworths, kreskys, zellers, robinsons right in the core. Granted jackson kinda pulled the need for all of that out of the core, but still, with the redevelopment of the city center, and the cobalt towers I am hoping something of actual use goes into these areas... look at any old picture of the hamilton core - the downtown was PACKED at ALL times.
How many places to work at have we actually built in the downtown lately? And not kitschy starbucks places that barely pay you enough minimum wage wise nevermind the lofty prices needed to live downtown.. Where is our business infrastructure? Innovation park? That's a long way away from anyone in the core. No, people are going to hop on the go and go work in the outlying cities. We need ACTUAL high end businesses - sure we have some architects firms on the upper levels of some buildings and its a start - but we need the high rollers to work for because its no longer dirt cheap to live downtown above businesses like it used to be - now its expensive as hell. We're building all these places where people are going to live, but not providing them with anywhere to WORK.
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