To the editor:
As I recall, our redeveloping Marina Park has been influenced and patterned after successful marinas that service huge populations the world over by members of our city’s planning department that have had little to no boating experience.
Our tiny neighbour, 80 miles to the south, Grand Maris, should have been, in my humble opinion, used as a design target for our improved waterfront.
This little Minnesota town has more summer tourists attracted to the rustic charm and natural beauty of their small harbour town and marina in one season than we could only hope to have in 10 or more seasons.
Why is Grand Marais so attractive to these hoards of visitors when they have nothing like what we have planned for our marina (while depleting our stimulus dollars)?
I think the tourist draw is the preservation of natural beauty of the area and the fact that it is for most part, the destination of their road trip.
I wonder if these tourists, who have much love of the grandeur of the North Shore, will drive the extra 80 miles to see the many, amazing, manmade adornments that we are bestowing upon our part of Lake Superior’s shore?
As I recall, our redeveloping Marina Park has been influenced and patterned after successful marinas that service huge populations the world over by members of our city’s planning department that have had little to no boating experience.
Our tiny neighbour, 80 miles to the south, Grand Maris, should have been, in my humble opinion, used as a design target for our improved waterfront.
This little Minnesota town has more summer tourists attracted to the rustic charm and natural beauty of their small harbour town and marina in one season than we could only hope to have in 10 or more seasons.
Why is Grand Marais so attractive to these hoards of visitors when they have nothing like what we have planned for our marina (while depleting our stimulus dollars)?
I think the tourist draw is the preservation of natural beauty of the area and the fact that it is for most part, the destination of their road trip.
I wonder if these tourists, who have much love of the grandeur of the North Shore, will drive the extra 80 miles to see the many, amazing, manmade adornments that we are bestowing upon our part of Lake Superior’s shore?
Ron Limbrick,
Thunder Bay
Thunder Bay
