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Originally Posted by Changing City
As already posted above ... There's a fair amount of retail already proposed (and approved) but not on a streetcar high street. There's over 10,000 sq. ft. of retail under the approved office building at 339 E1st, and 45,000 sq. ft. in the approved Onni hotel / office / live-work project at 399 E1st. There will no doubt be more in further development proposals - stringing it out along Great Northern Way isn't the proposal here.
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As already posted above, for retail and businesses to thrive in this area, retail needs to stretch from the Main Street skytrain station all the way to the OV village square, spanning multiple blocks for the convenience of residence, and not just stringing along old streetcar roads like Main St, which is old school during the time of automobile boom, and proven not to work well today. That's the point we are trying to carry across.