08-02-2021, 11:41 AM
(08-01-2021, 05:02 PM)taylortbb Wrote:(08-01-2021, 02:50 PM)ac3r Wrote: The problem is that what currently exists downtown almost exclusively caters to the 9 to 5 crowd and there are very, very, very few reasons for "normal" people (aka anyone not living down there) to go downtown for anything, let alone outside of business hours.
...where have you been for the past several years? Clearly not in DTK. I really respect a lot of the stuff you post here, but stuff like this is just obviously wrong.
DTK is a major restaurant destination. There's like two dozen restaurants people head to DTK to go to outside of 9-5, making it probably the biggest concentration of restaurants in the region.
I can personally attest just how difficult it is to get a seat at the Grand Trunk, The Surf, TWH Social, etc patios on a Friday or Saturday evening when the weather is nice. There's clearly tons of people heading downtown at those times.
Does it have all the culture I want? No. But the evening vibrancy of DTK is picking up rapidly.
I don't live or work downtown but I do go there quite often mainly in the evenings when I'm not at work. The vibrancy is definitely picking up rapidly and it's very noticeable.