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Originally Posted by StEC
I think it would be brilliant if this section were closed permanently as well but along with King William Street between James North & John St. What this would do is create a safe European streetscape with restaurants, patios, shops, buskers and it would connect people to Gore Park and the new park being built where Lulu Shawarma is. See my crude highlighting on the map below. The existing patios on King William could be slightly enlarged because of this keeping a pathway open still for emergency vehicle access if needed.
This would also be a catalyst I'm sure to fill up the retail in The Right House and would encourage excellent retail in the podium of the new King at Hughson development! It would guarantee to be a very lively area during the nice weather months and a possible tourist draw. Would allow Art Crawl & Supercrawl to expand as well! Win win win if you ask me!
Only possible problem is coming up with a solution for deliveries to some of the businesses that would be affected by the loss of the road access. Maybe designated times? Solutions exist we would just need to find the best for this area.
Thoughts?
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Absolutely love this idea! I've also thought the city should try to expropriate a strip of land between the south facade of the CIBC Towers to an imaginary line through the parking lot that matches with the south street wall on King facing the Gore….any new building put on that parking lot would need to have street-facing retail both on James and along this new pedestrian promenade connecting Gore Park directly to the MacNab Transit Terminal. With you idea above, this would create a nice simple network of pedestrian prominent spots and places to hang out from MacNab all the way to Catharine St on the Gore, and NE to the new John/Rebecca Park and condo tower on Rebecca.