06-29-2020, 04:43 PM
(06-29-2020, 04:26 PM)danbrotherston Wrote:(06-29-2020, 04:24 PM)ac3r Wrote: The pandemic is one reason why the downtown is so quiet at the moment. What is also true - and someone pointed it out - is that we're a region of over 600'000 people, but we have 3 downtown cores. Aside from that, what the downtown is really lacking is retail and things to do. There are very few interesting shops and even fewer things like art galleries, cinemas, music venues and so on.
Downtown does in fact have a cinema, an art gallery, and several music venues...
Edit:
https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.448548,-8...6656?hl=en
https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Apollo+...8889?hl=en
https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Conrad+...8258?hl=en
I think the biggest failing in DTK is advertising, aside from the apollo, which I frequent quite a bit, I wouldn't know about these things if I didn't walk past them...which is why foot traffic is so important.
Yeah I know, but it's still not enough. People don't want to go to the same gallery, cinema or theatre all the time. Art galleries only show, at most, 2 exhibits every 2 or 3 months. Cinemas play the same films for weeks at a time. Music venues...well I can't comment on our local ones, since I don't listen to the kind of music that is ever played live in Waterloo Region. There is just almost nothing downtown that will draw people down there, and that's a problem. A downtown can't survive on condos and cafes for yuppies.