Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "You were saying Tim":
8:20
I saw no blame. Only confusion about saving money for Canada Post. They sent everything to Newmarket & sold the building. The town lost those jobs & an active successful Post Office. The work still has to be done
Posted by Anonymous to Our Town and Its Business at 3 June 2014 11:03
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The building has been purchased by a law firm. A site plan application has been made which will be
a considerable improvement over the current site.
A local law firm is expanding its operation . More and better jobs replace the post office operation and nicely complement the professional area already established.
While two terms of Council and administration have focued and spent hundreds of thusands of dollars on Promenade Study, Communty Improvement Plans, District Heritage Designations,
Heritage theme park ,Culture and Arts, you name it ,they've done it ,while repeating a fifty-year old mantra on the need to re-vtalise the downtown core.
Under our noses Wellington Street East and points south has steadily evolved its own special character of professional services.
The only influence the town had was a policy developed years ago. Before there was a planning department.
Residential zoning of the fine old homes would be retained . Re-zoning would be required for
a change in use. The Town would control how the area would evolve and the Town did.
We didn't need to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars. No army of bureacrats needed to be hired. The endless trail of expensive studies were unneccessary and futile to boot.
The Town always had the only tool neccessary,the stock of fine old homes that lent themselves to adaptive re-use and business people who came to us with enough imagination to share the vision.
The law firm taking over and changing the post office building is a large piece of the picture.
Tax revenues will be added as well as jobs and an infusion of business activity.
It took almost forty years for the change to be realised. It has been gradual. But it is here now for all to see.
We are on our way.
There has never been a better argument for the essential partnership between town and business.
Tuesday, 3 June 2014
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5 comments:
Well said!
Oh, please, please, let the site application pass without the usual hollering about needing a canopy, more shrubbery and additional parking spaces. So many decent projects have gotten stalled at the committee level.
Or committees using the back door approach to force things through, or get others back to the podium.AKA Sandra and John.
Unfortunately I would have to agree with 12:43. It would be interesting to find out (ya right!) how many potential investors have tried to do business in Aurora only to be shown the door or have have been advised to come back for the next set of council members and committees.
I am not sure if it is OK to mention closed meetings. Maybe it is micro-managing or some fool thing. But I am concerned about the mention of that neat ice rink idea developed by a staff member.
Evelyn, try not to let them convince council that the originator of that design does not want or should not receive even a small portion of any profits that might ensue.
I can understand how the town could do very well out of this over time and will be very angry, but helpless, if I hear they shafted him. We have invested in far stupider ideas.
Just because it is not a council-initiated project should not mean it can be dealt with shabbily......
or sneakily. Bring it out into the open if you can.....
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