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Oppressive?

I grew up going to that mall every Saturday and never felt "oppressed".

It is impossible to know what Downtown would look like without JS having been built. Perhaps it would be the one truly thriving downtown of a city it's size, the retail hub--perhaps Hamilton would be the one city in North America where suburban shopping never took off. Perhaps it would simply be a exactly what it is today with far fewer 9-5 workers downtown to support retail, restaurants and services.

And as a matter of clarification, the old City Hall was demolished to make way for an expansion of the T. Eaton Co. department store, not Jackson Square.