03-18-2021, 04:13 PM
(03-18-2021, 04:06 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: Ultimately, I find it incredibly ironic that malls like Conestoga have activated their parking lots with patios like this: https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.4976967,-...384!8i8192
Not a particularly pleasant place to sit. I feel the same thing is wrong with the Fairway plans. And yet a significant block of our downtown is a completely dead blank wall: https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.4486528,-...384!8i8192
It is pretty blank, even if it does provide some protection from the elements. But I don't see why you couldn't add some entrances there and reconfigure the interior in this part to enable standalone retail units.
In the 1960s, the future was seen as shopping malls. And, so, to save the downtown, we got two shopping malls downtown. As things turned out, though, that did not work so well. But hindsight is always 20-20.