Downtown Halifax is sitting at a D- grade. With restaurants closing, the boutique district almost non-existent, what’s to draw people downtown? To bring people to what makes Halifax, Halifax: the small businesses, the people who put their life into their stores to bring Halifax some character and personality. I don’t even need to mention the gigantic massive ugly eye sore of a hole in the centre of the city. What happened to downtown Halifax? Barrington? Blowers? Now slowly becoming a ghost town. How will small business survive? What’s the draw to bring people downtown? A city council that does nothing but have meetings with no actions. A Business Commission that isn’t focused on the immediate need. Where are the fresh ideas? The risks? The leaps of faith to breathe new life into a downtown core that’s slowly dying? —Yup
This article appears in Aug 23-29, 2012.
unfortunately, halifax has sucked just about forever. back years ago, there were things called theatres, ice cream parlors, and yes, even cheap gas. but we evolved or devolved into what this city is now. a cesspool of corrupt polititions, and dope dealers gone wild.
my best solution is for you and anyone one else, is to just don’t pay any attention to it anymore. halifax is fucked. why let yourself get fucked along with it? get the fuck away, while you can.
Go find a nice quiet beach on a fine day or do some shopping at one of the big ass malls during bad weather. I could never see the sense in everyone mullling about in the excessive of downtown Halifax anyhow. It is a concrete metropolis but that, my friend, is the price of progress. It is up to you to have a bit of sense and not get sucked into the black hole!!!!
Excessive Heat and sinkhole stink of Downtown Halifax. Sorry.
I can’t believe I’ve lived here for 25 years now…thank god the kids are grown and I am in the process of trying to get the hell out of this town…could never bring myself to call this place a city. Cities are progressive…we have the Heritage gang who will ensure that as long as you can see the stink ass harbour from Citadel Hill…you know…the place where no one actually lives…then downtown will just be a cesspool of drunken college kids killing each other over who’s got a bigger d$%k
WHen you turn your streets into money making opportunities for the city through the ticket system…how can that type of policy do anything but cause people to avoid the inevitable ticket(s) they are going to receive by going there ?
Sure for the most part the public is a bunch of sheep, with a clear & demonstrated history of 100% herd mentality.
BUT once you finally fleece every member of the herd at least once…the smarter sheep find new pastures !
Until the policy of ticket as quickly & as many as possible , with fines outrageous to the “crime” commited changes, I see the downtown as going no where but further down & I as well as my lover & my family members are all definately a supporters of staying away. Once I attended the festivals, walked the boardwalk, went to resturants, pubs & shopped, loved the weeekly vist with my honey to the Keith’s market etc… now we haven’t been to one place downtown except for the occassional work commitment or hospital visit in over 2 years & if I have the opportunity to work elsewhere I take the call out of Halifax every single time & will continue to do so.
What do you expect from a city that only this year added mass transit to their so-called international airport (I wish they’d start acting like one). Here’s a fresh cutting edge idea – how about a 24 hour store downtown (you know, like every other “city”). At the rate downtown is going downhill Barrington St DESERVES to become a strip-joint laden redlight district – it might be sleazy but what better way to drink the trickle-down revenue from the convention centre.
Umm the SS on Barrington has been a 24-hour store for a while now…
whats 4 hour shopping. I couldnt believe it when i moved back here from ontario everything closes at 10pm!. I did all my shopping at 3am before :/
People are like water, they travel the path of least resistance. Easier to just hit the big boxes out in DC or BLIP than battle the parking hassles of downtown. Besides everybody else is doing that! Baaaaa!!
Mmm, now what could possibly be the problem. It couldn’t be high taxes, high rents, (we won’t mention power), and too much fucking red tape to cut through, could it?
I wonder what can be done to draw some new businesses downtown…
in other cities, they have big stores in stand alone buildings in the downtown areas (stores that here, have chosen to open in the mall): Sephora, H&M – and now the Apple Store!
We need to make it worthwhile for these businesses to set up downtown! I’ve been to lots of cities where the core has become a ghost town… they’re pretty awful places.
A businesses commission who has enough spare time with all the fruits of the labor evident on Barrington Street, lol, to rally against apartment buildings that would being customers and life downtown, instead. Yep, this is Halifax…
want to see dead downtown, go see Hamilton Ontario…
full of crack heads & their crack babies, fat lazy ppl on mobility scooters (if you whine enough at your doctor & fake a physical disability you get a free mobility scooter, & drive like a maniac), deadbeat ‘parents’, homeless wannabe’s, the typical scum of the earth who fester like flies around the bingo hall & homeless shelters & federal Half-way house smack behind the convention centre… oh, sorry, I forgot all the freeloaders with their 4-prong canes getting on the buses free, assulting the busdrivers, for a measly $2.55 bus fare……
nuff said…
Emily I get that you have to blow off some steam..Being away from your family in Hamilton on Thanksgiving.I am glad for you that you’re using this Bitch Board to vent but, Please don’t shit on the crack babies,they were not asked to be born or born addicted to drugs. I honestly do hope you feel better tomorrow.Stay well Emily 🙂
Blame the crackheads who didn’t have enough foresight to jam a coat hanger up in there and flush them out.
Zed When at first read your post I was angry and disguisted by your comment.Then thought about it,unfortunately your correct,kind of.It’s the crack addicted baby that (if survive withdrawl) who will grow up with a life time of learning disabilities,not to mention being bulied in school,which negatively effects a person.As a result a lot of the time,even when the child is adopted,the cycle of disfunction is continued.Why because of the mother’s drug addiction…There are other reason’s as well but,here we are just talking about crack babies being born addicted not abborted.Sometimes the saying “If you love someone let them go…”,is very true in this case for mother(to be) and unborn crack baby…