What do you think of this project?

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Well, I think the battle I'm going to choose is not to complain too much about this project. Option two is we can leave the site as it is and just keep complaining about it and keep wondering why no one will do anything about it and waits and wait and wait. Should we have something much nicer, should we have no more new parking lots, definitely we should. But I will at least admit one thing, I'm not the one footing the bill on this. Now if I had an extra 30-40 million dollars or whatever it would take to build a tower there, I have my choice what I would want to put there for sure. But someone else has the bucks not me so they get to choose fortunately or unfortunately what happens now and when something bigger and better it gets built, it's their call. So for now I'll be satisfied with the site getting cleaned up and just hope that they will be able to come up with something much sooner than later. And again compared to some other properties that will not see any work done for easily another 20 years because there hasn't been work done on the past 30 years, I'm much more hopeful for this site at least. Am I giving up, no but I'm choosing my battles
 
Ohman said:
1. “Hopefully the market conditions improve for a building there one day”
2. “Well at least it's not just a parking lot, there will be retail”
3. “I hear exciting coffee place is opening up a location in the seacan”
4. “I hope the coffee shop can expand its hours, its annoying that it closes at 3pm”
5. “I noticed the shop is now closed up, anyone hear anything?”
6. “Hopefully something else can open up in the space”
7. “Retail at that corner can’t make it in the current market”
8. “There's a permit in for removing the seacan and adding a few more spots”
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We are currently at step 2 of the timeline
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Oh man, @Ohman I think you nailed it
 
Janice nailed it. I love how Raj was just like why the fuck is it parking when you’re beside an LRT lol. Props to Olivia for expertly avoiding saying it’s a raised platform to keep people separated from the meth zombies. Neal bringing up good points and stressing there should be more “temporaryness” to it... why is future use barely mentioned… I don’t think (or at least I hope) a developer wouldn’t bother going through all this to keep this site for 7 years like the one guy mentioned as a worst case scenario. Because if this weird fancy parking lot is seen as a long term venture, then just step back and let someone else with intention to develop it step up. With the quick timeline mentioned repeatedly as a reason for the half assed design, it sounds like there’s other potential interest…

I want to be best friends with almost everyone in the design committee 😍 😂
 
After watching the video there are some more points that I need to add.
Instead of getting revenue from parking cars, move towards ebike/scooter parking. I believe there is no dedicated parking spot in downtown for such vehicles and it would encourage more people to get to downtown using that form of transportation. Video screens partnered with a news network for advertising revenue. The screens could also show movies etc. Mini-golf can also attract people, and generate revenue. It would bring back memories of the mini-golf ECC used to have nearby.
 
Remove 100% of the parking and add 1000% more stalls/cans/vendors whatever. That will bring vibrancy and foot traffic.
See Portland's Midtown Beer Garden. I remember going there when it was just stalls street facing.

There's literally a billion dollar LRT and station in front of this property. A parking lot is imo, offensive.
I hate to believe people would park at this site to use the train (or whatever) and would rather believe that people would take the train to go here, a potential vendor dense space to hangout.
The rice howard way entertainment district is also right there. Parking, really?! Maaaaan.
 
JaayJR said:
Remove 100% of the parking and add 1000% more stalls/cans/vendors whatever. That will bring vibrancy and foot traffic.
See Portland's Midtown Beer Garden. I remember going there when it was just stalls street facing.

There's literally a billion dollar LRT and station in front of this property. A parking lot is imo, offensive.
I hate to believe people would park at this site to use the train (or whatever) and would rather believe that people would take the train to go here, a potential vendor dense space to hangout.
The rice howard way entertainment district is also right there. Parking, really?! Maaaaan.
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Oh my gosh, that reminds me of the little food shacks in Ottawa's Byward Market. They were so popular! If Westrich put some of these in with seating and landscaping as a temporary use, I think it'd be a great boost for the area.
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The Bikes parking, minigolf, good shacks are great ideas, but, you are forgetting something, this is one of the worst spots for drugs consumption in the city, and there is very little the city can do to fix that and even less Westrich. This is a no-go zone for a big percentage of people.

Sadly, no hopes for improvements on that.
 
Edmontonmanía said:
The Bikes parking, minigolf, good shacks are great ideas, but, you are forgetting something, this is one of the worst spots for drugs consumption in the city, and there is very little the city can do to fix that and even less Westrich. This is a no-go zone for a big percentage of people.

Sadly, no hopes for improvements on that.
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Not with this mindset.
What was this spot supposed to attract? It's a literal torn down building left as a desolate lot. It's not going to draw a rave.

That being said, between city center needing a teardown, and the concentration of what we actually have downtown, this is a pretty good spot to have that bike parking, mini golf and food shacks, whatever this could be due to the potentials of foot traffic.

Changing the landscape will change the attitude of this area 💯, especially being adjacent to both lrt and 'entertainment district' with a lot of festivals at both Churchill and Ice district.
Not that it was insinuated, but drug consumption is an issue in not just the city but rural towns too, it will move to a different spot.

To add, generally speaking. This proposal works actively against the idea of pedestrianizing 102nd ave and reinforces car brained thinking. Blick 🤢
 
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