Recent content by 456YEGGuy

I know people working in that area and you know far more about this program than they do. :eek: 🤯 The budget and minister says this new Alberta Fund will run itself since the government hasn't allocated any resources to the people working in the area responsible for this fund. All the programs...

Van Loc Vietnamese subs has a new owner. The previous owner retired and the place was purchased by a young man barely out of University to keep the place going and to try to revitalize Chinatown. Good luck to him. 👍

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-chinatown-lunar-new-year-recovery-1.6719288

It's not that it can't be done. It's just that the City of Edmonton keeps hiring incompetent people who lack the skills to implement the project. You can see this in the cost overruns at Blatchford. They can make it near net-zero by mandating thermal bridging optimized 2x8 construction...

PF Chang's, Tesla Supercharger, The Keg, Wine & Beyond, some weird traffic circle park, kb&co. It's got it all! It would be complete if Cabela's installs a firing range.

What happened to the old gate? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-s-chinatown-community-looking-forward-to-new-harbin-gate-1.6702453

What? No Beaver Liquor?

Roughly 3.5 hour docu-series on Chinatown. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt9BTsCbP6wseGgZTqdO4_Cq7uaSMWJZS

https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/edmonton-police-investigating-second-new-years-day-suspicious-death

My SO got 2 at Century Park. She said many people were not interested in taking the ARC cards. :eek:

Development appeal board revokes permit for new Boyle Street centre https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/deeply-disappointed-development-appeal-board-revokes-permit-for-new-boyle-street-centre https://globalnews.ca/news/9304226/edmonton-housing-homeless-politics/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/the-loop-takes-a-walk-in-chinatown-1.6663234

The first message on this topic was posted in April 2016. It only took 6 years and 7 months to public rollout. Let's hope it works. 🥳

https://edmontonjournal.com/opinion/columnists/keith-gerein-how-helping-edmontons-homeless-has-created-a-consultation-morass-for-the-city

So, if I read this properly, the cost of operations will go up by 65.5% for 2023. "External professional services" also increases by 90.4%. That's a massive increase.