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Originally Posted by Chadillaccc
Wow, that is very impressive! With all the money coming into the Mac I don't see why they can't build it.
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More money leaves Fort Mac then comes back into it. While Fort Mac is, and will continue to be the economic engine for Alberta and Canada for decades to come the city and the people who live and work there to create that huge amount of income see little benefit. The downtown is a mess, the highway between FM and Edmonton is a deathtrap and completely inadequate, the real estate prices are insane due to the province dragging their heels on releasing land and spurring development, ect...
Fort Mac is being treated like a temporary boomtown by the province and federal government, they simply do not want to spend alot of money on it as they a shelf life on it that expires when the oil sands do. It is a little BS because with the Grosmont Formation right there as well and the future development of oil and gas in the North Fort Mac has the potential to be an important city for a long, long time.
Fort Mac NEEDS to be made into a place where people actually want to live and work beyond the current single drive of the almighty dollar. It needs to have amenities and nice areas such as that waterfront proposal, far nicer shopping options (Peter Pond Mall is one of the most profitable malls/sq foot on this planet so the market is definately there). It needs the twinning of 63 all the way to Edmonton and it needs it ASAP. It needs a huge redevelopment of the downtown core and hopefully a push to create a space that entices alot more white collar jobs connected to the oil sands into leaving Calgary and coming to Fort Mac.