^My feeling as well. Vancouver's Granville street pedestrian mall was a total disaster (speaking from my 4 years living in Van in the nineties). Retail went completely south. The bums and freaks were legion. Soon, all that was left retail-wise were tattoo parlours, skin-mag shops, hemp/head stores, corner-stores with bars on the windows, and one lonely struggling coffee shop/restaurant.
My impression of Sparks street was that it contained 2 really interesting blocks of cafes/restaurants, and the rest was mostly a retail wasteland.
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