When did Fleisch close?

Okay. This I like.

Sadly, displacement and hand-wringing has been the usual approach to Boyle Street over the last 60+ years. So many of civic projects of the 1970s and 1980s ended up where they were to clean up our old Chinatown by plunking something modern on top of it.

Upscale residential also amounts to, "You know, all we need to do here is just push the non upper class somewhere else," in what's always been a very working class neighbourhood. I don't mind The Hat being here, but the neighbourhood would lose something if it got copy-pasted with that. Whatever...

Given how much land in the neighbourhood has ended up owned by the city due to forfeiture, there actually is room to take a direct hand.

I like seeing the use of coloured concrete, but there are some puzzling aspects there.

Only if I'm in a car, and then I have to divert a truly negligible distance. I've lived in the neighbourhood since 2018. I can't emphasize enough how trivial the supposed inconvenience is, and how it's actually nice that it's not a major cut through for cars.

Which, given 97 and 95 streets, and 102A Ave, 103a and Jasper Ave, it doesn't really need to do.

Parking runs 50-75% during the day. Most parkers are office hours, so it gets pretty empty after 1830.

I see that you're not especially familiar with the core.

No, the grant structure doesn't: it's the nature of parades that disincentivizes parades. They are extremely labour intensive to put on relative to the return the organization putting them on actually gets, unless they have something like TV rights they can sell (eg Stampede). It's also a...

This was so due for that kind of upgrade. I used to often bike to a friend's place up by Clareview along the LRT MUP and cut over to catch the then nascent bike lanes on 40 Street. It was always the classic weirdly overbuilt low-traffic arterial where biking along it invited all kinds of...

It perhaps seems that way, but it isn't actually the case. Like there's grants that festival organizers can apply for (and you can even use them for parades), but the City isn't the one doing the leg work to make all of our events happen. That's mostly volunteers.

This is also the approach to the High Level that seems to lead to the most stuck overly tall vehicles (especially in the peak U-Haul times at the start of fall semester and end of winter semester). 109 street has ample space for warning and a good escape route. I've had to play ground guide on...

Yep. Emergency response to overdoses is just another way that the addiction crisis is downloaded onto municipalities. If an ambulance isn't immediately available to do the job, a fire engine is often the reserve. It's become a pretty commonplace thing to see fire engines on EMT calls in the core.

There has been a depressing reversal of the decline in violent crime rates in recent years, but you know... 20 years ago, I'd probably never have opted to live where I do now. And when I first came back to Edmonton, the core was packed with stabby bars. It wasn't too terribly long before that...

I work very near it... because I usually work from home. This will change in the coming months.

Womp womp. One of the challenging things about this spot is going to be that pretty much everyone else around you has their stuff together, and some of what's there is pretty economical especially during the rather broad happy hours.

Something something most Edmonton thing you can do.

I certainly hope the new restaurant goes, well, but my autistic brain needed a moment after reading: PARKING ASIAN AT REAR FUSION HAPPY PARKING HOUR AT REAR