Downtown

[kcantor]

^^^

it's absolutely not great regardless of the adjectives.

as for global edmonton, as of this morning their site says "Our affordable talent has attracted investment from some of the world’s biggest tech companies including Apple, Microsoft, Deepmind, IBM, Amazon and more. These companies are also benefitting from the region’s low cost of doing business."

given that our talent is now more affordable and that the cost of doing business is now lower than when deep mind first arrived, maybe that's not the most important thing to be selling? after all, someplace else is always cheaper.

it also begs the question of how much we stay in contact with those companies who do come here after they arrive and before an exit interview is called for.

 

[Greenspace]

City of Edmonton has launched a Window Repair Grant. This is a grant of up to 50% of the cost or $2500.00. Similar to the grant program other cities have launched.

www.edmonton.ca/downtown

 

[Gronk!]

Downtown Dining Week March 15 - 26

 

[Greenspace]

Edmonton's International Ice Carving Competition is coming to the ICE District Plaza​

Be dazzled as you watch 8 teams to create 15 block sculptures in 34 hours and vote for your favorite sculpture. Carving happens January 24 – 26, 2023.

Chiseled | Edmonton's International Ice Carving Competition | Ice On Whyte

Edmonton's International Ice Carving Competition and winter programming. 8 teams, 15 block sculptures, 34 hours and your vote! Learn More.

www.iceonwhyte.ca

 

[Aaron_Lloyd]

City of Edmonton has launched a Window Repair Grant. This is a grant of up to 50% of the cost or $2500.00. Similar to the grant program other cities have launched.

www.edmonton.ca/downtown

Should be 100% given it's the city's failure to protect its residents which caused this issue to become as big as it has in the first place. Not to mention the city has a vested interest in not having commercial streets lined with boarded up windows.

 

[IanO]

Nice to be reminded of a bright spot right now.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1618681492183388164

 

[Gronk!]

Reimagining downtown Edmonton

Alberta’s government is investing in Edmonton’s downtown to support projects that create an exciting place to live and work.

www.alberta.ca

 

[itom987]

^^ An army of only 9 people? Hats off to those folks for keeping downtown clean, much respect! The management should do better though, the army is too small.
The homeless should be volunteering to help the clean up crew. Those that help should get a warm place to sleep at night, food to eat and a warm shower in the morning as compensation.
I am flabbergasted as to why this hasn't been done.

 

[Filip.Nowak]

 

[kcantor]

^^ An army of only 9 people? Hats off to those folks for keeping downtown clean, much respect! The management should do better though, the army is too small.
The homeless should be volunteering to help the clean up crew. Those that help should get a warm place to sleep at night, food to eat and a warm shower in the morning as compensation.
I am flabbergasted as to why this hasn't been done.

you might want to check boyle street’s “downtown proud” as well as some of their venture initiatives If you think similar things haven’t been supported for a long time by them and the dba and assorted commercial and private sponsors…

 

[Aaron_Lloyd]

 

[itom987]

you might want to check boyle street’s “downtown proud” as well as some of their venture initiatives If you think similar things haven’t been supported for a long time by them and the dba and assorted commercial and private sponsors…

It should be made official instead of having mini-groups and one-timers doing it on a irregular basis.

 

[kcantor]

It should be made official instead of having mini-groups and one-timers doing it on a irregular basis.

"downtown proud" has been in place for well over a decade and it's hard to boyle street - which has been in existence since 1971 - as "mini-groups and one-timers doing it on an irregular basis".

should it be a larger program? should it include other activities (such as snow removal in the winter which requires a higher investment in equipment is much more irregular than clean-up)? perhaps...

it's also worth noting that boyle street pays those individuals an hourly salary, not just a place to stay and something to eat and showers. these are the sort of programs that should be building blocks, not simply recipients of platitudes for those patting themselves on the back and complaints from those that they don't go far enough.

 

[itom987]

I don't care how it is done, just as long as the homeless work force is employed, or at least given the offer. I am sick and tired of us spend tax dollars on people that don't pay taxes, trying to improve their situation without any effort from them to make things better. We cannot have it one way.

 

[kcantor]

I don't care how it is done, just as long as the homeless work force is employed, or at least given the offer. I am sick and tired of us spend tax dollars on people that don't pay taxes, trying to improve their situation without any effort from them to make things better. We cannot have it one way.

we spend lots of money on lots of things and lots of people that "don't pay taxes". that's far from the only criteria to use when deciding whether those monies are being well-spent for society at large as well as for those things and those people. we cannot have it one way??? it is only one way and it's one way regardless of what measure you want to use - it's really a matter of "you can pay now or you can pay later". unfortunately, we're currently in the "paying later" stage for a host of previous poor decisions not to pay. and, unfortunately, not paying now will make continue to make things both worse and more expensive because what needs to be dealt with will still need dealing with.