12-11-2024, 09:14 AM
Ottawa is trying again with the Le Breton Flats thing to get the Senators downtown... not too familiar with Ottawa but I was there this summer and the downtown was dead during the weekday I was there, and pretty quiet at night too.
It's been a long time since I went to a Storm game, but the arena there didn't seem to bring much traffic to the Quebec Street mall.
It seems to me that "going out" is less of a thing than it used to be, many folks don't have the budget for a night out anymore, and alcohol consumption is apparently declining too. Concerts are extremely expensive too.
I like the Kitchener Market, but my feeling is that an arena would end up more like that.
It's been a long time since I went to a Storm game, but the arena there didn't seem to bring much traffic to the Quebec Street mall.
It seems to me that "going out" is less of a thing than it used to be, many folks don't have the budget for a night out anymore, and alcohol consumption is apparently declining too. Concerts are extremely expensive too.
I like the Kitchener Market, but my feeling is that an arena would end up more like that.