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Some have been against it and some have been for it…now it’s time to heal and go on. The Ontario Municipal Board on Friday decided that the Port Tower has been approved. As one of the articles below states “While bricks and mortar are important, the greatest resource a community like St. Catharines has is its people, and their relationships with one another.” Now it’s time for the community to work together and unite for future generations.
As more information and articles become available. I will be adding them to my Blog. Any questions or comments, please do so on the Blog.
http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1458868
http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1458133
http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1457237
What’s done is done. The project is approved and it’s time to make the best of it.
The unfortunate reality is that yet another community area for Niagara has gone the way of the Dodo. Over the last couple of decades almost every public gather spot of note has been gobbled up by development initiatives, many of which (like this one) were camouflaged with idealistic, opinion friendly claims of community betterment. Ultimately, these projects are business ventures with little, or no, consideration of the necessity of such places for the greater good of the community. The beaches are disappearing, the parks are shrinking, and the public areas as a whole are dwindling. The Port Dalhousie condo project is by no means the first of these initiatives that have diluted and diminished our public areas, but it is the latest and possibly the most dramatic. Port Dalhousie has developed, through the basic principles of supply and demand, into a “jewel” of the Niagara Region and is a unique and irreplaceable resource for the public and the community. To the developers, this is simply prime real estate; prime residential real estate. The rest of the project is the aforementioned camouflage. Now that the “genie is out of the bottle”, it is likely that the transition from a community area to a residential area, (with a minor pit stop in commercial; just for appearances) will be relentless and permanent. Bid a fond farewell to the last of the Dodos.
What’s done is done. The project is approved and it’s time to make the best of it.
The unfortunate reality is that yet another community area for Niagara has gone the way of the Dodo. Over the last couple of decades almost every public gather spot of note has been gobbled up by development initiatives, many of which (like this one) were camouflaged with idealistic, opinion friendly claims of community betterment. Ultimately, these projects are business ventures with little, or no, consideration of the necessity of such places for the greater good of the community. The beaches are disappearing, the parks are shrinking, and the public areas as a whole are dwindling. The Port Dalhousie condo project is by no means the first of these initiatives that have diluted and diminished our public areas, but it is the latest and possibly the most dramatic. Port Dalhousie has developed, through the basic principles of supply and demand, into a “jewel” of the Niagara Region and is a unique and irreplaceable resource for the public and the community. To the developers, this is simply prime real estate; prime residential real estate. The rest of the project is the aforementioned camouflage. Now that the “genie is out of the bottle”, it is likely that the transition from a community area to a residential area, (with a minor pit stop in commercial; just for appearances) will be relentless and permanent. Bid a fond farewell to the last of the Dodos.