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Gunter: Edmonton's Quarters experiment a multi-million dollar dud

It hasn’t worked, and now Edmontonians could be on the hook for almost $64 million in cost overruns

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The city’s Quarters experiment has been a dud.

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The Quarters is the district immediately east of Downtown, which the city has been attempting to defibrillate into vitality for nearly a decade – with taxpayers’ money, of course.

It hasn’t worked, and now Edmontonians could be on the hook........

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