[esquire]

^ In hindsight, turning Broadway into an office district in the 60s was the wrong move. It spread the office market out way too thinly over downtown. It would have been way smarter for the city to have focused office growth along the Portage and Main spines except maybe for a small provincial government office hub near Memorial, but I guess there was too much money to be made. The fact that there really hasn't been any substantial office construction on that strip since the 80s tells you about its viability in that market.

But with many of those Broadway office buildings getting long in the tooth now (like Wawanesa), residential conversion would be a great idea... it could reinforce the existing strength of Bro-Ass as a residential neighbourhood.