I’m sure by now everyone has seen King Eddie’s latest legacy scheme. I’m not quite sure what to make of this plan, but I don’t like the idea of removing the last remnants of the residential area west of downtown for a hair-brained scheme like this.
It seems like this mayor is always after the silver bullet solution, rather than trying to fix the things in this city that are broken… But I digress…
If you haven’t seen the plan yet, click here for high res version of the photo above.
Judging by the concept drawing supplied by his highness, it looks like all of the area shaded in yellow will be obliterated. In fact Chatham St. will cease to exist west of Church St.
I took a little cruise through the area last night to show off the sights to those of you that aren’t familiar with the area. Here’s a mid-century hydro sub-station.
A nice, well kept little house on Bruce.
Next door to that one, at the corner of Bruce and Pitt is the J. H. Beattie house, listed as being built c. 1892.
This currently commercial section of row houses along Chatham was formerly the offices of the Walkerville Times.
An old early 1900’s duplex.
Hard to tell from the renderings, but it looks like these two older buildings along Pitt St. between Chatham & Janette may be saved. One is currently the home of Acapulco Delight, who already had to move once when their building on Victoria just south of University was demolished for a much needed parking lot.
A view south along Janette from Pitt.
I suppose we’ll have to wait and see, but if Eddie’s track record counts for anything, than there’s nothing to worry about as it will never get done…
What do you guys make of this plan? For the out of towners, click here to read the media’s coverage…
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This is an amazing plan, but knowing our "businessman(s)" they would take more in their pocket than let this plan to live. It is time that our city change it's own face and start following modern world.
Downtown is a crime ridden hole full of junkies, drunks and projects. its not a canal they need, its a giant sewer that's needed to flush away all the turds.
i think king eddie and clowncil have been looking at the river walk in brownsville texas as a model for what windsor could have there's just one difference in texas the river was already there they didn't have to do any excavating to dig the waterway
as long as the present regime is in power i don't see too much happening in windsor if Tecumseh hadn't said they were going to build an arena those fools at city hall would still be trying to come up with a plan togeather they couldn't build an outhouse
judging by the amount of buildings in the ilustration it might take 10 or more to see this thing thru to completion but i still think it's a dumb idea as was stated earlier we should concentrate on this we already have that need attention