12-21-2015, 07:35 PM
(12-21-2015, 07:10 PM)insider Wrote:(12-20-2015, 05:09 PM)Canard Wrote: The Record's view: Out of a sad loss, new hopes rise at the former Schneiders factory in Kitchener
Sad loss? how can a slaughterhouse/meat processing plant be something desirable in the center of a community? These are/were exactly the types of jobs for low education levels that stop communities from evolving and growing in a positive and sustainable way. That said, I DO understand the historical value of this plant. There are still many cities with meat factories where land values and desirability are incredibly low simply because of the presence of such a pollutant, smelly, and overall negative land use.
Just to say that your comment seems terribly dismissive of Schneiders and all the other local employers who provided, and continue to provide, livelihoods for our respectable working class and lower middle class. These people have always been contributing members of our community and are respected for it. I hope we never see Kitchener reduced to a city divided between elites and an underclass trapped in service McJobs.