As the new $21.3-million downtown parkade nears completion, it is clear to me it is going to be another hideous looking mess just like the City Yards.
I cant wait to see the new “living roof” that is also planned for it. Sounds like it is going to be a great place for crows and magpies to dig up worms and insects. Maybe the city will fence it and throw a few cows or sheep up there so it doesn’t have to be cut.
What’s up with all of the brightly-painted piece of pipe hanging all over it?
I can just imagine how long it will be before this thing becomes home to some of the downtown’s street people. Hey, Red Deer has a few hookers doesn’t it?
And next year, if it happens to be raining on 4:20 day or Bob Marley day or whatever you call it day, all of the pot heads will have a dry place they can go there to light up and smoke their weed instead of using the City Hall Park year after year. And it being 100 feet closer to the police station, maybe the police will have the energy to walk over there and do something about it.
The graffiti artists probably can’t wait to get at this baby. Many of them are very talented, so I am sure their work will be an improvement. I will even loan them my ladder if they promise to paint those ugly pipes a different colour!
But you know as ugly as this thing is shaping up to be, it sounds like it has a lot of advantages for a great many, so I guess I should not be so hard on council for approving this monstrosity.
As for the architect, I don’t know how much he got for designing this thing, but I think he should have got life. . . .
Louis Talbot
Red Deer