main st demolitions 2009

with nothing better to do i went for a bike ride and came acros the new united wy building site being cleard off


and this old sign

good eye..
i remember the lleb letoh.
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weird sh1t ..


http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/07/we-bring-fear?page=1
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http://www.alternet.org/story/141163/taibbi%27s_scream%3A_stop_the_political_system_that_has_let_goldman_sachs_fleece_us_for_90_years/
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North Main is going to look great up to the rail underpass in a couple of years...

what about past the underps though... we can't stop there we need to find a way to preserve the architure we have left on the noth side and get rid of the seedy bars at the same time

Can't save everything MrP. Nor should we try. North of that underpass is a disaster. Try to save many of those buildings and see what happens. I've venture a guess: nothing!

Plus, frankly, we need someplace for part's of our society to live. North of the underpass seems like a great place...

so basically we're going to encourage a "wrong side of the tracks" scenario?

grumpy old man wrote:Can't save everything MrP. Nor should we try. North of that underpass is a disaster. Try to save many of those buildings and see what happens. I've venture a guess: nothing!

Plus, frankly, we need someplace for part's of our society to live. North of the underpass seems like a great place...

NO way.....real tired of certain elements being pushed up our way....after fighting the good fight all these years to beautify parts of Point Douglas I will fight to ensure that my property values keep climbing. Sorry, but we had to deal with crap for many years before things got better.

even if we could save the facades of some of the buildings and build new behind them it could realy be a nice strp again its in the stage of death that the south side of the tracks s just crawling out of

"even if we could save the facades of some of the buildings"

as opposed to having the facades almost fall on cool photogs?

huh?

who cares about the facades?

This is one of my pet peeves about cities. When cities start out...and start expanding...they build...they build new. They tear out all the old crap and look for the BEST and most efficient addition to the city.

Look at the Fort Garry hotel Do you think it was built like that because they wanted it to look "old"? No..it was built like that because that's what was built in that day...it was good.
Look at the Leg...the best of the best.

So who cares about saving old buildings that are falling down?

Want expropriation? let's go through that whole strip on Main...and RIP them down...ALL of them. Build bigger, better, cleaner.

For those being expropriated...they'll get their cheque...some sort of payment to say "thanks...now get out"...and most likely they'll take that money and end up in some other ghetto/gutter...hopefully in another city.

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Mr_Point wrote:....................................

Is this supposed to be a "line"?

AGEsAces wrote:so basically we're going to encourage a "wrong side of the tracks" scenario?

Sure. Works for me. So long as it is in someone else's neighbourhood...

grumpy old man wrote:

AGEsAces wrote:so basically we're going to encourage a "wrong side of the tracks" scenario?

Sure. Works for me. So long as it is in someone else's neighbourhood...

What a NIMBY

Mr_Point wrote:huh?

ah is when you almost got nailed last year....

grumpy old man wrote:

AGEsAces wrote:so basically we're going to encourage a "wrong side of the tracks" scenario?

Sure. Works for me. So long as it is in someone else's neighbourhood...

i hate that atitude though why can't we just take the effort to deal with the problems and prevent them

Tongue in cheek young man. Must learn to "read" sarcasm...

i fail engrish imposimble

me fail english? thats unpossible!

BTW Mr P is off doing his nefarious urban explorer shite.....stay mofo tuned

Londonish is werss...

they tore down the litte storfronts between the bell and bridge man and it apears 666 is being left

I was going to ask you about that,Mr P.......I noticed that pi;e of debris on the north side of the Bell but I couldn't remember what sort of building was standing there. Also Mr P, have you been watching the disassembling of the Reiss (Gray's Auction) Building on Bannatyne? I simply cannot believe they are going to go to the trouble of reassembling the buildings shell to hide the parkade its becoming. I'm almost certain that will turn out to be more talk then action.

who knows i saw it the other night realy a piss off what has happend to the ryan block shoulda never been alound to happen

Why don't they just give local residents sledgehammers, and have them tear the buildings down. They already tore down the neighborhood and the interiors...