City puts up $400K in downtown stimulus
The city is putting up $400K to stimulate downtown shopping. Large outdoor terrasses and temporary public squares are planned, but even reading this item makes it clear how contradictory this has to be: organizing “pop-up art installations and “surprise” music and dance performances” while “encouraging physical distancing and discouraging group gatherings.”
David432 00:14 on 2020-07-22 Permalink
They’re trying to give city workers papers to push when they should be slashing fees, taxes, and other compliance requirements. We’re looking at a catastrophe.
Hamza 02:01 on 2020-07-22 Permalink
That’s a tiny sum for such lofty goals…IIRC the gazebo on the mountain cost about that much
Ian 07:49 on 2020-07-22 Permalink
Classic Montreal response: Is this a problem we can throw clowns at?
dwgs 08:55 on 2020-07-22 Permalink
Nice try Hamza but you’ve underbid, the final cost was 700k. 🙁
Kevin 11:38 on 2020-07-22 Permalink
The city should save its money — it’s going to need it.
I strongly doubt that any government is going to be able to cut taxes for the next few years, because the amount of tax revenue is going to plummet.
I have a feeling that we’re soon going to see more A Louer signs than we did in the mid-90s, and that the value of commercial property is going to nose dive.
david123 19:15 on 2020-07-22 Permalink
If we get a redux of the 1990s economy, and want to make the most of it, then we’ll need 1990s levels of indifference to code enforcement/casual corruption. You could pretty much do whatever you wanted then without really worrying too much about city inspections, compliance, even taxes.
Ian 12:17 on 2020-07-23 Permalink
If we go back to 1990s housing prices I’m definitely buying property this time around, a triplex was only 60k in St-Henri in ’92 😀