05-05-2020, 10:23 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-05-2020, 10:23 AM by panamaniac.)
(05-05-2020, 09:21 AM)ac3r Wrote: I love how the renders always make the streets look so busy and full of people from all walks of life. Downtown rarely looks like that, and half the people you see out are people you want to ideally avoid. "Got any change?". Hopefully with time, the streets will have a good level of activity, but I think we're in desperate need of interesting retail, food and amusement (galleries, bars, theatres, cinemas, cultural centres, workshops) to really get us there. If you live downtown, you're forced to go shopping elsewhere for the most part. If you live outside of the downtown, there is very little reason to go down there to find something you can't find closer to you.
You don't see the current wave of development as changing that DTK dynamic? The downandouters are not going anywhere, but there are going to be a lot more residents wandering around the neighbourhood, along with the growing employed population/lunch crowd. Kind of like in a real city ....