Twenty-one million dollars for a one-time sporting event like the Canada Games, the $115 million failure called “the sewage treatment plant,” the $2 to $6 million giveaway for concerts on the Common—and spending $57 million to receive 10 times that back in taxes isn’t the “smart” move?
Please, don’t invest money, just sit back and see this tired old crumbling city stagnate, get dirtier, its downtown become non-existent and substandard transit get more and more pathetic.
There’s just so many times one can say no, before developers and forward thinkers leave this decaying place for better pastures.
—posted by halifaxmentor
This article appears in Oct 7-13, 2010.