IanO
Senior Member
Safety=vibrancy
Neglect=disgrace
Safety=vibrancy
Safety stability is first priority - no businesses there will expand or attract other businesses without people being safe. IanO you have field of dreams thinking - build it and people will come and make it secure. Yet business owners there want security NOW to just survive.That's fucked.
It's almost as if you put most service providers, injection sites and basically turn your back on a neighbourhood and expect something different to happen.
I feel horrible for those business owners, property owners and community.
Focusing most of the City's social agencies in Boyle-McCauley/Chinatown is not good for anyone and hopefully they can be somewhat decentralized, but if anyone thinks Hope Mission will just pack their bags and move out of their brand new-ish building are kidding themselves.You are missing the foundational point of this article and need.
This part of Edmonton has been neglected for years, been dealt cards they should not have and have had to absorb the vast majority of Edmonton's core social, addiction and mental health issues.
We certainly need to find ways to help those in need and get them out of their situations, but the entirety of this article speaks to how bad things have become BECAUSE of what has been downloaded to the area, its residents, businesses and property owners.
Its disgraceful and while this funding will help, my point is that this funding should never have been required in the first place and continues to erode the actual mandate and investments in the area to support business growth, foot traffic and beautification of the area.
Instead monies continue to be thrown away because of other past decisions and lack of action; that's really sad.