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Originally Posted by OldDartmouthMark
I recall it being the Matador cabaret, and later the Crazy Horse cabaret (where some pretty good bands played), then later it was (yech) Little Nashville. I can recall later that they turned into some strip clubs or something - will have to consult the Trailer Park Boys episodes for confirmation...
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Season 5, Episode 3. "The F***ing way she goes". It's a great show to watch when homesick.
I have a question for the planners in the room, not to be adversarial just trying to understand.
Did anyone in the planning department check the average size of the PID's in the areas designated for a FAR of 5 and what it would take to actually get to the 90m max height in the plan? It seems to me, someone would have to consolidate a few of these to allow for a footprint large enough to go up to 25-27 stories. Even the one on Robie and May does so and is only 8 stories high. Here, they would have to purchase the 2 or 3 properties down Wyse Rd. to achieve a building over 20 stories.
When council voted on the directive to concentrate growth to the core and a plan was created to address this. How did the department plan achieve that objective with this strategy? The CP has streamlined mediocrity so each greenfield site can get its own version of Box by ....... but we've restricted the sites so that the plan only works in an ideal situation with wholesale re-development of a few select areas. The limited budgets of these short buildings warrant very little effort from the builders let alone a landmark. We get buildings that conform but aren't very interesting. Built as planned though, adding inadequate amounts of units to a market that needs twice the numbers we are building..
The reason for my constant concern for the issue of height in Halifax, is this is a site dedicated to skyscrapers. Here we have a perfect case study of restricting height in an area and development stagnating for decades afterwards. The viewplanes in Dartmouth and Halifax hollowed out each respective downtown after being implemented and it seems we just expanded the case study to the rest of the city. At a time when we are finally growing and evolving as a city, we could use new thinking to go along with it.