The CoV has released some illustrations of what their vision of what Broadway would look like as a "great street". It's incredibly disappointing to see that they have no intention of addressing the problem of blank facades along newly built retail streets. The illustration shows a continuous, expressionless glass wall. As we see in neighbourhoods like Commercial Drive and Mt. Pleasant, most of the character comes from the varied colourful facades. They can even be works of art.
The City makes the same obvious mistake over and over again. They didn't need to publish illustrations , because we already have a real life soulless example at Broadway and Cambie, where the Crossroads building is, and that green glass and spandrel monstrosity across the street.
It would cost nothing to put some opaque surface that would allow the tenant to get creative with the facade, and make a huge improvement to the public realm. This ability to get creative draws a greater variety of businesses (instead of the usual rotation of bank, insurance office, Starbucks), because as an independent business, this is how you advertise, and it draws more people out to the street, because it is a more interesting place to interact with.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/broa...ouver-concepts
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