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Originally Posted by Coho
By contrast, is it not likely that the more people who move into the area, the more likely it is for amenities to increase? The whole reason amenities are on the decline is because less people are filling the offices full time. With residential buildings, there's life after 4pm when all of the federal workers go home.
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Definitely, and there are already a bunch of big residential projects that will be coming online in the next 1-2 years, so there are thousands of new residents coming shortly.
To the extent that amenities are on the decline, it is primarily the amenities that cater to the 9-5 office crowd that have been impacted. Downtown is still very amenity-rich and walkable for the people who actually live there. The only thing that it lacks is big-box retail, and most people living downtown don't have room to store a 12kg jar of mustard anyway.