TD Bank Rises

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• Hell, I was in Detroit last Friday and it looks like their downtown is moving light years ahead of Windsor in just a year or too and not too long ago their downtown was like Nightmare on Elm Street (wayyy behind Windsor). It's just poor leadership, namely bad tax policies. Business people invested all that coin in the renovating the Book Cadillac because of a 15 year tax abatement. The property taxes on a million dollar plus 5000 sq ft penthouse condo in the BC is only a couple hundred bucks a month. GM is staying in the Ren Centre because Detroit Council is waving their property taxes. Detroit rewards businesses for cleaning up their downtown properties; whereas, Windsor punishes businesses in downtown with higher taxes for cleaning their places up. All that development in downtown Detroit is due to all those tax credits, abatements and lower tax policies they are offering downtowners. Downtown Windsor is dead because of uncompetitive tax policies. Even the MPAC tax assessment office announced a couple weeks ago that they are moving from downtown Windsor to Tecumseh. All Windsor has to do to fix their downtown is change their tax policies like other cities, yet they are too blind, arrogant and stupid to realize it.

  Let's raise downtown taxes to build a canal. Yeah, that's really gonna revitalize downtown.

• glad to hear that david. that placement didn't seem like a very safe place for public to be walking under. i wonder if they could of been fined for that. if i knew all that steel was over my head i would of never walked through there.

• If Windsor is moving in the same direction as Chicago, then it's news to a lot of us. Instead of more trees and flowers along our major arteries, we see less. According to Councilor Alan Halberstadt, the city has removed most of the rose bushes from Jackson Park in a futile effort to save a few bucks. We used to be know as The City of Roses not too long ago but now we're known as The City of Trash. What gives?

• I work across the stree from this new bank building and although it will be better than what was there, it is not good enough.The last thing we need dwontown is another 3 story building.We will be stuck with that now for what, 50yrs.

  What is needed downtown, among a million other things, is to have some of the streets closed.Most are a real short blocks and end up at yet another light.It's a real bad layout down there.How much can that cost.

  I have seen pictures of downtown Windsor in the early part of the century.There were fountains and other nice things to look at.It looked better then than it does now.Why not let the UofW and St Clair students have a stab at redesigning downtown?

• what really confuses me is they seem to fix up every other block on ouellette but the block between wyandotte and elliot seems to get passed over they have all those big stone flower beds that the parks department always seem to overlook every spring plus the road is terrible i thought they would have kept going south to elliote street but they decided to re do pelishier street keep your murder scene neat all i ever see on that one block of ouellette is gabage dead rat carcasses and dog shit the whole block looks dirty