[Migrant_Coconut]

Originally Posted by Changing City

I wondered whether Chinatown might not provide the cheaper, more flexible spaces that are being lost in the rapidly developing parts of town. Already there are a few established music venues nearby, and the Sun Wah Centre has seen a good chunk of its vacant space transformed into an arts hub. There are quite a few galleries on East Georgia too. If the regulatory, noise and fire code issues could be negotiated it would seem there's plenty of vacant retail space that has no obvious tenants waiting to take it, that might give the area a boost. If there were small retail tenants on the streetfront, it needn't create a deadzone during the day, either.

To my understanding, the residents would consider that kind of thing "gentrification" and kill it on arrival.