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Originally Posted by BillDing
Thanks for the article, I hadn’t seen that one before. It surprises me that there’s only 3,000 downtown residents. This project alone would increase that number by about 30%!
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When Baydo fills up both towers that should add about 1,000 people ish to that block. I'd assume the Star Phoenix site development could add another apx 1,500 people on 5th on top of that.
All said and done, there would be some legitimate density in the blocks around 5th and 24th, hopefully in turn making amenities in the immediate area more likely (grocery, gym, etc).
It sure would be nice to at least get a couple blocks to the point downtown where you can take the elevator down to ground and have your grocery, gym, coffee shops, and a couple restaurants within a short walk.
There's also a surface lot on the corner of 5th and 24th that would be a good candidate for another tower.... time will tell!
EDIT: on top of downtown proper, there are about 5,000 in city park, 4,000 in Riversdale. We've got to be close to the numbers required for some of these amenities to start moving in
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I'm sure the CPC and US-funded media are scared thinking about the Libs finally giving them a political drumming in this city, so they want to try to give "city folk" every reason not to move here. Those people aren't in charge, and they don't have the power they aspire to. A bunch of loudmouths in a voting public who has endorsed these Atch/Clark era plans for a long time now. This is all a bunch of baloney to make people think the opposition is greater than it is, when even the Sask Party is on board with it.
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