MadMax
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Oh yeah... And Ontario Place, The Ex and Woodbine are all buzzing with activity...dream on Adam. The Holier than Thou persona does suit you though haha...
Ontario's finance minister wagers that a casino along Toronto's waterfront would be a cash bonanza
"Forty-odd flights will leave Toronto this week to go to Vegas or Atlantic City," he said.
But those gambling dollars could instead be poured into the local economy.
How about we convert Metropolis (or whatever it's called now) to a casino.
Now it looks like a movie set cast off from "Blade Runner".
It's right on dundas square, tonnes of hotels and restaurants in the area. Could be a great spot for an urban amusement park (as had been suggested previously). It's not like this location will become any seedier as a result.
A casino is wasted on the lake since so few will ever look out a window to appreciate the view.
"Forty-odd flights will leave Toronto this week to go to Vegas or Atlantic City," he said.
I think people are sometimes naive and believe what others merely tell them.
The two casinos in Niagara wouldn't be up in arms if it didn't mean that much to that city and it's residents.
I agree with you freshcut...you don't put all of your eggs in one basket. Unfortunately Niagara Falls didn't have much choice in the matter, with a fledgling economy, no industry and high un employment they had to make that move. The consequences would have been a U.S. style NF where real estate prices are the lowest in all the U.S. because nobody wants to live there. Fortunately though Toronto has many different and diverse baskets to put its eggs in. It would merely be a part of our city, not it's distinguishing feature. Complimentary for lack of a better word.
Aahhh, hotels, restaurants, foot traffic, tourists, thousands of jobs... Yeah who needs all of that. I think people are sometimes naive and believe what others merely tell them. The two casinos in Niagara wouldn't be up in arms if it didn't mean that much to that city and it's residents.
Atlantic City's beachfront was relatively residential when the casinos took over from the boardwalk as the biggest game in town, and those neighbourhoods are very, very bleak. Slums. The casinos offer zero benefit to a residential neighbourhood, much like the way the Eaton Centre sucked the life off of Yonge for years & years -- they are designed to keep people inside.
I was under the impression that Atlantic City's beachfront nabes were already bleak and slummy at the time the casinos took over--the victim of more attractive jet/interstate-age vacation destinations and generic 60s/70s-style urban decline. (And ditto with certain other old-school beachfront resort zones in that part of the US: Asbury Park, Coney Island, etc.) Of course, from an urbanistic standpoint, the casinos didn't help...