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Nobody is building new power centres in the Vancouver area; one of the only ones I can think of is Queensborough Landing in New Westminster, which is a nightmare to get to without a car.

Mixed use developments generally don’t exist in smaller cities, so the idea of putting apartments on the same footprint as mall retail is foreign to a lot of people outside larger cities like Vancouver and Toronto.[/QUOTE]

No new power centres in the Vancouver area??.......You need to get out more.

Anything south of the Fraser is nothing but power centres and they have {and continue} to be built at a dizzying pace. The entire region is awash with these centres with basically no decent transit connections.

As for the new condos with street level shopping, in White Rock that has had a devestating effect on the vitality of the area. The main shopping district of White Rock, Johnston Street, has seen dozens of M&P stores been destroyed to make way for tall condo buildings which everyone, without exception, absolutely hate. Now we have more coffee shops and no where to shop so everyone has to go to the local mall or power centres to even get basic groceries.

This was allowed by the former mayor pushed by developers and once one building is allowed, the floodgates were opened. NONE of these huge high rises are even remotely affordable to 90% of the population. Surprise surprise, it was later learned that the mayor got, in true |Vancouver style, a "special deal" on one of the condos.