BEXTE: Who will finally bulldoze the Nenshi-Gondek Drug Den?

"On my left, a coffee shop where kids waited with their mothers while a relative endured heart surgery inside the hospital. On my right, five men circled up on stolen bicycles, lighting a crack pipe."

Photo: View of "Crack Alley" the narco-wasteland that surrounds the Calgary Drop-In Centre.

Last summer I found myself walking past the Sheldon Chumir hospital in downtown Calgary, near the so-called “supervised consumption site” that Nenshi and Gondek foisted on the Beltline. I rarely come to this part of town anymore, mainly because it is where my gym …