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Chinatown

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.
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.
 
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.
 
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.
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.

The goal is to get more visitors and new residents to Chinatown to ensure that the only people walking around the neighbourhood are no longer just patrons of the aforementioned social agencies. Eyes on the street and all of that, etc. etc. And this is coming from someone that visits Chinatown at least once a week, maybe more, as we get most of our groceries from Lucky 97, 99 Supermarket and Italian Centre.
 
97 Street has become better, but 106Ave and the businesses around there, let alone half a block north are absolutely insane.

We used to go there multiple times a week, but my girlfriend (who is of Chinese decent) is simply not comfortable there and added security is not going to really change that to be honest.

We go most times when we return to the city, but rarely stroll or explore like we used to.
 

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