Shops at Waterloo Town Square

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If you repeat it often enough, maybe it will become an Internet meme?

While parking matters, especially for suburban malls, I think this is a gross oversimplification.

Okay.   Walk through the downtown malls.   Compare to suburban malls.  Enjoy a vape.   Nothing but 1 subsidized anchor in Market Square, a headshop, and a nail shop there.    

If people can't go easily there, it ain't happening.  Compare anchor tenants at Boardwalk, Market Square and Uptown mall.   CIGI has been trying to rent for 6 months, no dice.    Ask the Farmer's Market effort downtown in Kitchener.

Downtown malls have long tried to beat suburban malls at their own game. Tends to not work that well.

I don't have an issue with it being paid parking in any of those lots, but it should be a sliding scale based on how full it is.

Is there such a thing as real time parking garages?  That have the price changed based on how full or empty it is?

Haven't heard of automated real time parking garages; certainly lots in cities where there are events will jack up the prices when the events are happening. I think that's usually manual. In the absence of events it's usually fairly easy to predict a couple of weeks in advance what the occupancy is going to be like. Also, I believe that SF has real-time dynamic street parking pricing.