The Welland Downtown Core

A few weeks ago councilor Belcastro made an announcement in council stating things in the downtown core were progressing nicely; it's 150% better than it was 10 years ago. This past week in an insert titled "Downtown Welland" BIA chair D'Amico in his article "A place to live, work, and play" used some very remarkable but hard to believe graphic adjectives of the downtown core such as"Buzzing with activity","Crowds flocking to city events", and the surrounding core stores are full of ideas and treasures. D'Amico goes on to say the downtown is constantly growing and thriving with new businesses starting up all of the time.I have to ask these two gentlement if they are indeed talking about the downtown Welland core. Have I missed something? It appears theses two gentlemen have the same script writer.

I believe the public is entitled in knowing a few statistica to support their statemnents of constantly growing, thriving, and new businesses starting up all of the time.Where are they so all of us can partake in this growth? I certainly would not say both sides of Easr Main from the bridge to the Tribune are what one would call a shoppers paradise to find new ideas and treasures. I will say though one should not overlook the stores on Cross Street between East Main and Division as they do fit the picture of a shoppers paradise.

While the two gentlemen organize their upcoming statements with statistics they might think about the number of businesses that opened and closed over the past years?????

Let's have a little show and tell