06-09-2015, 01:28 PM
(06-09-2015, 12:57 PM)KWchick Wrote: and sure, ppl will go to bluesfest etc.. and they 'might' come back to shop... but there arent really any good places TO shop.
i dont know.
seems to me they have gotten rid of an awful lot of busy places...
There is no "they" that have gotten rid of grocery stores and hardware stores and such downtown. Given the proliferation of cars and the change in residential density towards the suburbs, the demand decreased and made many kinds of retail unviable. It will take a lot more residential density downtown to change that. And I don't think bringing people downtown to shop is a workable model, not to mention that Kitchener already tried this with all the downtown malls a few decades ago - to little success.