chrisvazquez7
Active Member
These lights will be gone as soon as they start the Valley Line construction here. Don’t worry everyone, the sky isn’t falling.
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Gronk!
Senior Member
It's now July 2025 but they still haven't started Valley Line LRT construction on 102 Ave yet.
Greenspace
Senior Member
^102 Avenue will be started in 2026 through 2028. They're waiting as long as they can to do it last as it will be most certainly almost complete shutdown of the area.
kcantor
Senior Member
You know what other intersection has signals hanging from wires?
Vancouver's Broadway and Granville. And I've never heard anyone say Vancouver looks cheap because they still have signals hanging from wires.
Seamusmuldrew
Active Member
Oooh do we have so many still because we kept our trolley buses for so long? That reason might make me slightly less pissed off tbh
Out of Towner
Active Member
Strangely enough the lights hanging from the wire at the Gateway Boulevard and Whyte Avenue intersection kind of fit in with the surroundings but they're an eyesore almost everywhere else and in some respects Edmonton is ahead of Vancouver because in parts of Yaletown they still use coin operated parking meters.
IanO
Superstar
IanO
Superstar
Sounds like there will be some significant news about this property coming forward ASAP.
Friendmonton
Active Member
Praying the west renovation (first leaked years ago) is back on the menu.
The_Cat
Senior Member
Probably putting it up for sale.
Gronk!
Senior Member
I hope so. Overall, LaSalle has been incompetent when it comes to managing a downtown mall in a major Canadian city.
Kosy123
Senior Member
Either a renovation or a sale pls, City Centre Mall is a big component of revitalizing downtown vibrancy.
I’m surprised they don’t just offer 2 hour free parking similar to West Block to poach some possible foot traffic.
I’m surprised they don’t just offer 2 hour free parking similar to West Block to poach some possible foot traffic.
JNO1
Active Member
ASAP cannot come soon enough. Having spent a great deal of time in the west end of that mall over the last 4 months, it is a ghost town, at best, and an absolute $#i! show more often that not. A complete embarrassment for this city.
David A
Senior Member
Because of all the vacant spaces it seems fairly empty, but there are still over a dozen stores and businesses still here in the west half of the mall. Relocating all of them would be an undertaking.
So the previous plan or something similar focusing just on the far west side (ie. the former Bay space and spaces near to that) where most of the vacant space is probably still makes sense.
However, I don't feel the biggest problem is the mall itself, but more a general hesitancy still for many retail businesses to locate downtown and a city that has a very suburban mentality.
So the mall itself is not the embarrassment, but it is a visible reflection on our attitude and approaches as a city which should make us all uncomfortable.
JNO1
Active Member
^ We had a number of folks from various places across Canada at the Gala and opening for Unceded in March and at various other times since then. Most commented on the sad state of the mall. Between the empty stores and the people stumbling through yelling and screaming I felt like I was in some sort zombie apocolypse movie. It was truly embarassing. At least for me.