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Originally Posted by DHLawrence
The Windsor waterfront is sadly lacking in high-rises. So many underused or vacant lots that could be developed.
I was giving a work colleague a ride back to his place downtown and he told me about a time he had visitors who marvelled at the Windsor skyline. Him: "Yeah, that's Detroit."
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Yup, but that's because the city was built on an auto industry that has pretty much pulled out of Windsor. Property values in Windsor are low enough that people would rather have a home than a condo. You can drive anywhere in the city in about 20 minutes and we've also had some of the highest, if not the highest average unemployment in the country for a decade.
So don't expect much popping up in Windsor any time soon. Currently we are a lost city trying to bring jobs back to the city and find a new identity. We haven't climbed out of our economic depression.
Secondly I might add, development fees are too high in the city as opposed to nearby towns, so development has been poached by/to those communities and watered down as sprawl.
There has also been issues of lot consolidation, there are too many owners of small lots. Downtown we have an ENTIRE BLOCK that has been demod and sat as green field for a decade, sad really.