Impact on the Area
If the current campuses of Windsor Regional Hospital relocate, this will have a significant and lasting impact on existing neighbourhoods.
Physicians will move their offices to locations that are closer to the new hospital. What businesses are likely to take over abandoned medical offices? Over time, more and more medical professionals will migrate to neighbourhoods that are closer to their work.
Restaurants and other family owned businesses near the current hospitals will see their revenues decline.
Those who choose not to move will have longer commuting distances and the region will experience more traffic congestion. People who previously walked or cycled to work, will have to drive or use public transit. Their neighbourhoods will become bedroom communities.
Just as Windsor's downtown area has suffered since Devonshire Mall opened in 1970, these existing neighbourhoods will undoubtedly see an outflow of residents. This will affect house prices.
If the current campuses of Windsor Regional Hospital relocate, this will have a significant and lasting impact on existing neighbourhoods.
Physicians will move their offices to locations that are closer to the new hospital. What businesses are likely to take over abandoned medical offices? Over time, more and more medical professionals will migrate to neighbourhoods that are closer to their work.
Restaurants and other family owned businesses near the current hospitals will see their revenues decline.
Those who choose not to move will have longer commuting distances and the region will experience more traffic congestion. People who previously walked or cycled to work, will have to drive or use public transit. Their neighbourhoods will become bedroom communities.
Just as Windsor's downtown area has suffered since Devonshire Mall opened in 1970, these existing neighbourhoods will undoubtedly see an outflow of residents. This will affect house prices.