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Originally Posted by Acajack
Yes, I noticed yours was downtown as well. MEC has been a good inner city partner in many places it seems.
Ottawa's store relocated about 10-15 years ago (going from memory). It went from inner city east New Edinburgh to inner city west Westboro. The first location had almost no parking whereas the new location has a teeny bit of parking.
Neither area could really be considered to be struggling though, and both have done and could do fine without an MEC store.
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Ours is smack dab in the middle of downtown and has no dedicated parking. They actually emphasize that it's on good public transit routes and promote urban cycling even though it's in a very hilly area that only started getting bike lanes about a year ago. There's a bit of on-street parking nearby (although it's usually otherwise occupied) and pay parkades across the street, but it's not common for people to park at the parkade to go to MEC.
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