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Originally Posted by Keith P.
I lived adjacent to the convent when I was a little kid - I remember seeing the nuns come and go and wondering why they always wore what I later learned was called a habit. Later in life I lved a block away for many years. I know the area very well. And because of that I know that there is zero retail anywhere along North until you go east almost to Agricola, and damn little even after that. It is an overly narrow, heavily trafficked street with no stopping/parking along most of it, hardly ideal for retail. Maybe that's why there is none. The little cafe you mention up on Chebucto is one I've been to several times and while there are usually a few people around most of them spend $2.50 and stay there for an hour. I don't know how they stay in business.
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Let me go out on a limb, and suggest it might just be the case that things have changed in the area since, you know, you were a kid and nuns used to "habit" the area.
You don't understand how the cafe survives? Well, let me go out on a limb again and say it might also be the case some people out there don't think the way you do-- maybe there's people out there who like it? Who don't mind spending $2.50 for a coffee? Wouldn't mind a few more cafes or other small local businesses around? Maybe some people prefer to *walk* for coffee, rather than drive?
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Originally Posted by Keith P.
Planners have all the hackneyed phrases all tied up already.
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Are you sure? How about this one:
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Originally Posted by Keith P.
Your dogma just got run over, sorry to say.
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And your dogma just ran itself over.