01-18-2020, 02:02 PM
(01-17-2020, 05:48 PM)urbd Wrote: Ahhh. Another sad case of a business failing because of "LRT construction". The two-phase King Street reconstruction project was not related to ION whatsoever (started construction right after ION, yes). Either way, the idea of businesses in Uptown absolutely needing external visitors to survive is pretty flawed. None of these sad stories would even happen if more people lived within Uptown and supported these businesses, you know, like in most downtowns. People who fight density are the people that are the saddest when they see businesses like this one go, but they don't want more people to live closer to the businesses in the first place. Ironic.
Yes, yes, yes....all very true. And yeah, UPW has changed over the past few years. Though it still has some good shops and bylaw and the police picking up vagrants and dropping them in DTK. I remember when I used to work at City Hall and Waterloo dropped off the same 3 guys 4 times in one day. But hey, at least their uptown doesn't have to deal with those people....