Town Planners should start picking out Cattle Trucks and "Delousing Showers" now.
Arbeit Macht Frei.
My Home Town has a Market - Street Stalls that are occupied every Wednesday and Saturday by local traders selling cheap tat - taiwanese electonics, Hong Kong Sweat-shirts etc.(60% of stalls) and fine local produce (locally grown and reared vegetables, fruit and meat - 40% of stalls)
The Market was granted its charter by King John (yeah - the dude from the Robin Hood stories) in 1219 and almost 800 years on stands on the same streets and lanes.
Now, "Town Planners" are proposing a "dedicated out of town site" for the market.
I hope they fry in their own fat.
- Forums
- Cross Site
- The Asylum
- Planners
PlannersFollow
"I started out with nothin' and I still got most of it left" - Seasick Steve
Depends, is it run down and smell like boiled cabbage or would it actually be workable to spruce the place up as a tourist attraction/hotspot much like the Byward market in Ottawa?
Bode - 100 Holy Paladin - Lightbringer
bodhisattva wrote:
Depends, is it run down and smell like boiled cabbage or would it actually be workable to spruce the place up as a tourist attraction/hotspot much like the Byward market in Ottawa?
But it attracts local people who can't afford High Street prices, and those of us who want to buy locallly produced fruit, vegetables and meat instead of battery-farmed chicken and cucumbers flown into our supermarkets from South Africa and the Far East.
"I started out with nothin' and I still got most of it left" - Seasick Steve
An organic, free range type, historic market place in the downtown area. If it was Canada they would be dumping funds and giving incentives to attract new businesses.
/shrug
As noted the Byward market. Used to have a crime problem, as well as prostitution. They made some changes, re-routed traffic and now it is yuppie central. To a lesser extent you can look at what Winnipeg has been doing to revitalize their down core through the Forks and building the new arena downtown and setting up zoning laws that actively support businesses moving into the downtown core, combating the surburban sprawl where people never leave their own part of the city.
/shrug
As noted the Byward market. Used to have a crime problem, as well as prostitution. They made some changes, re-routed traffic and now it is yuppie central. To a lesser extent you can look at what Winnipeg has been doing to revitalize their down core through the Forks and building the new arena downtown and setting up zoning laws that actively support businesses moving into the downtown core, combating the surburban sprawl where people never leave their own part of the city.
Bode - 100 Holy Paladin - Lightbringer
yeah, but with the changes made to Byward Market, it changes how it used to be percieved. It used to be the place to go to and have a good time, now, it's over on Elgin St. that you find most of the new places opening.
Recent Visitors: 326
All times are in CST
Anonymous Guests (326)
- Forums
- Cross Site
- The Asylum
- Planners
© 2024 Fanbyte LLC