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Greenspace
Senior Member
West parkade is owned by the City.
archited
Senior Member
Murals of my Butt
archited
Senior Member
It's time to sell!
David A
Senior Member
People are back downtown, but retail and commercial in particular does not seem to be coming back that much yet.
I suppose what happened was like a forest fire, it was really devastating to downtown. It takes a while for things to come back.
All the empty store fronts don't give a good impression to visitors or encourage more people to come downtown. It would be nice to see more progress soon.
_urbanite
Senior Member
John McKinlay named CEO at Centurion, leaves post at LaSalle
Maybe the new CEO will feel compelled to do something with this mall
Maybe the new CEO will feel compelled to do something with this mall
David A
Senior Member
Maybe, but I suspect to many of the large Toronto based companies, we are an afterthought and a market they don't know how to deal with well, because it is quite different than there.
The mall problems are really downtown Edmonton problems. It is not like most of the rest of the downtown core is doing great either. Until we fix our downtown problems (and that is not up to one private company) things will remain challenging.
Greenspace
Senior Member
^Some people are back Downtown, 2-3 days a week. That's not like before.
Tropical
Active Member
I disagree that the issues facing City Centre Mall should be framed as mutually exclusive. Yes, there are systemic issues in downtown Edmonton that destroy the sense of order and safety required for the shopping centre to thrive. Yes, there is major issues with the facility itself that destroy its interface with the surrounding neighbourhood and create an undesirable atmosphere.
Government needs to fix this. And the private owners need to fix this. This is not an either-or issue.
Government needs to fix this. And the private owners need to fix this. This is not an either-or issue.
David A
Senior Member
In addition to all the systemic social issues, Edmonton is a very suburban focused city, with not that many corporate head offices downtown and seemingly little desire ever to attract more.
So boosting our downtown has been a challenge for decades and one I would say we are not doing that well at now.
buildings
Active Member
went for a walk from Brewery district to Churchill Square passing through CCM along the way. By the time I made it to the mall I was tired and thought to get myself a drink and a sit down. Not one seat or bench to be had anywhere... a seating desert. What are they thinking? I'll not go back.
Edmontonmanía
New Member
I think we all know the reason they removed all the benches.
kcantor
Senior Member
^. ^^
Interestingly enough, I have been in malls, some of them very high end, elsewhere in North America, in Europe, and in Asia where there is no seating other than in restaurant or food court spaces so “the reason” might not be what you think it is.
Interestingly enough, I have been in malls, some of them very high end, elsewhere in North America, in Europe, and in Asia where there is no seating other than in restaurant or food court spaces so “the reason” might not be what you think it is.
Edmcowboy11
Senior Member
I've experienced the same thing. Some of the fancy SM malls in the Philippines have absolutely no seating other than at the restaurants and the food court.
David A
Senior Member
I seem to recall many years ago, maybe a decade or more in the past there was some limited seating and it was taken out. I suspect it was a conscious decision to deal with problems or concerns with people coming into the mall and loitering. There is seating in the food court area, but you have to go up a couple of levels to get to it and excess loitering is probably discouraged and monitored.