Tewder
Senior Member
Well it's easy to say that you feel it is a schlocky design because you're in disagreement about the proposal. If I said it was the greaterst design I've ever seen, my opinion would be worth as much as yours.
I say it is a schlocky design after seeing the pictures. Only my opinion, true, obviously.
And I think you are wrong. The location was available and enticing and I already explained what I think Ripley's approach will be.
Of course the location is enticing, I get that, but it's a little easy in a 'tower gets lots of people so aquarium will' way, and sort of underscores for me that the business decision is trumping all others in locating it here (which I don't really blame Ripley's for one bit, by the way).
Actually, Upper Canada Village doesn't get a million people. If you read page 2 it says that the entire Commission gets 1million people and it includes: Upper Canada Village, 12 major day-use beach sites and campgrounds, Fort Henry National Historic Site of Canada, Long Sault Parkway (between Long Sault and Ingleside), Upper Canada Golf Course 1000 Islands Parkway (between Brockville and Gananoque), Crysler Park Marina 100 km of waterfront on the St. Lawrence River, Upper Canada Migratory Bird Sanctuary over 30 km of bike paths, Crysler’s Farm Battlefield (adjacent to Upper Canada Village). Sure, if you want to stretch things out over a 200km corridor and lump them in together then go for it, but the idea that Upper Canada Village is attracting 1 million people annually isn't right.
It still gets lots of visitors, as many other sites around the province do, and even outside of Toronto or Niagara Falls.
The fact is, the CN Tower by itself sees two-to-three times more people than Burlington does, so even if all of Toronto's visitors aren't going to the Tower everytime they visit, it isn't even necessary because it still outperforms entire cities and regions.
... which still doesn't mean it's the right site for an aquarium. The Eiffel Tower is number one in France but it doesn't mean they would ruin a monument and build tourist attractions at the base of it.