WFCU Centre Open House

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• What's the address??

  It really ticks me off to hear this place being called the WFCU Centre. WFCU is partially to blame for the mess this city is in. Only 20% of the people in this city will qualify for a mortgage from them. They'll only offer loans to the blue chip, high paying union workers of this city with a really high paycheque. If you're a financially solid self-employed business person with a really good credit rating and a PROVEN track record like me, they won't lend you a dime or help anyone with a refinance to grow in this city. If you ever wondered why you see so many vacancies and empty buildings are around this city, it's partly to do with stuck up, selfish organizations like this. They're not even a bank, they're a "credit union", so don't even try to think you can be stuck up like TDCT. If you want to make a difference and help this community recover, start offering refinance and construction loans to private citizens who are motivated to see this city recover. People who have high paying union jobs are not the ones who are going to take the chance to restore old buildings and build new buildings and get the capital to make an idea real and fill up all those vacant buildings and reinvigorate the local economy. WFCU doesn't give a crap about helping the Windsor community, just lining their pockets by only offering low risk loans and mortgages to high paying union jobs. Union jobs are vanishing and the future of our economy is going to be from the initiative of entrepreneurs and self-employed people. I hope people see WFCU for what they really are and that they're partly responsible for seeing the destruction of this city. Having their name WFCU on a public facility like this like they are somehow helping Windsor is so phoney that I can't even stand it!! Nothing wrong with offering mortgages to low-risk, high paying union jobs, but be fair and offer these mortgages to other people too. Otherwise, get out of this city and let another credit union or lender balance their loans so they can improve this community without you guys hoarding all the blue chips!

• I don't think it has an address really. It's not on any road, or accessible to the public yet.

  They are expanding McHugh St. from Lauzon across Little River, so I think once the road it expanded it will have a McHugh address.

• I don't know much about WFCU, but locating the new arena downtown would create its own problems, wouldn't it? I mean, wasn't lack of parking a big complaint about The Barn's location?

  What about a hockey tourney with dozens of teams, maybe 5000 or more spectators - where would they park? I don't see a lot of hockey players taking the bus - no subway option. Hockey basically requires a car, especially if you carpool, which does save gas and traffic.

  I'd rather not see this thing was Windsor's JLA on the riverfront. That monstrosity has to go, ASAP. A Costco has more architectural charm.

  Where exactly were any downtown locations for the arena, besides the area west of the art gallery? That's a big footprint with parking too.

  I think too that a lot of residents wouldn't like that arena as a neighbor - so the Lear plant (for as long as that stays open) is a good neighbor. Likely it won't be open for long, though, not with the dollar at par.

• Agree 100% JB.

  And oh, the irony:

  Affordable clean water is beyond our grasp, but we have the resources for this.

  "Hey Moe! Hey Larry!"

• There is no lack of parking in Downtown Windsor!

  A good look at the destruction p lots cause can be found here:

  http://spacing.ca/wire/?p=2349

• I think the Emperor needs some new clothes, quite a "snappy" dresser isn't he. Is it my imagination, or is the King's nose getting longer after all the lies he has been telling us? Just wonderin *smile*

• The faded jeans / hitman suitcoat look is coming back don'tcha know.... ;)

• How sad is it that we waited all these years to have what should be one of the city's crown jewels located behind an aging factory on a dead-end street. What a joke! I suppose it's just a coincidence that London's downtown has been thriving since the opening of the John Labatt Centre in their downtown. Way to sell us out Eddie - don't spend the money all in one place!

• Extremely sad yes, but sartorially speaking, it's nice to see a politician that doesn't wear the frump-a-lump golf shirt or bad/boring suit get-up. He's certainly not a fashionista, but it's a nice change from the usual.

• Well David if your actually were "financially solid self-employed business person with a really good credit rating and a PROVEN track record like me, they won’t lend you a dime"
  Why would you need a loan from them?
  Instead I believe it's just another anti-union rant because of jealousy! Need to grow up.