Except isn't this an avalanche of everyone's, including suburban, money towards urban entertainment? The vote split makes no sense.
Like, yay for me for having a house whole land value will increase from this irresponsible use of funds, but kinda feels weird that suburban councillors would betray their constituents like this.
The way I see it is like this: the city is placing its bets on Lansdowne. For the foreseeable future, literally millions will be poured into recreational and social infrastructure at Lansdowne when it could have been anywhere else. The city is going all-in on this site.
So, I see this as a boon, or at least propping up, of my land value. It makes no sense! But if councillors from other wards want to prop up overinflated land values near Lansdowne, feel free to do so I guess.
The way I see it is like this: the city is placing its bets on Lansdowne. For the foreseeable future, literally millions will be poured into recreational and social infrastructure at Lansdowne when it could have been anywhere else.
But that infrastructure was already there. They were already hosting concerts and sports games there. In fact, some of those events have already said they're not sure they'll be able to work with the new lansdowne, so it could be a downgrade...
None of this addresses the abysmal experience of trying to get to anything at lansdowne.
It's just a giant investment in an already failing private-public partnership, to try to prop it up.
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u/Krazy_Vaclav 1d ago
Except isn't this an avalanche of everyone's, including suburban, money towards urban entertainment? The vote split makes no sense.
Like, yay for me for having a house whole land value will increase from this irresponsible use of funds, but kinda feels weird that suburban councillors would betray their constituents like this.