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Originally Posted by biguc
Some of you have floated the idea of putting a grocery store into Portage Place. If anyone is interested in running one, that would be a fine idea for the back (along the Promenade) of the ground floor. Otherwise, I would turn those spaces, and the central corridor into offices, along with the back second floor retail spaces. The retail spaces on the front of Portage Place would turn around to face the street, with a walkway along the second floor to generate some retail intensity on the stretch.
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This is exactly what I've been saying for a while. Let the parts that don't help activate streetfronts become office, the main corridor becomes just the access to those offices, close off the main floor retail to the mall side (employee access only; they've cited too much theft with 2 doors) and have it all face the street. Second floor can be more open as it's still the skywalk connection.
The great thing with doing that to the main floor too is that it would be fairly cheap. Drywall the back (mall side) of the stores, the street entrances are already there.
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