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Originally Posted by JT Jacobs
Jake the Squire is outrageously bad simply because the city razed Old City Hall, as I understand it, to clear room for this mall.
Not all urban malls are bad things, though. TO's Eaton Centre is a pretty vibrant place. Calgary has several downtown shopping malls that are all respectable. Vancouver, too. The Downtown Thingy (this is going to stick, I swear) could be salvaged if they blew out the James ST wall and added shops and restaurants and patios--something that doesn't alienate the streetscape. Let's face it, James North is rocking; the DT is holding it back.
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I agree totally that downtown malls aren't a bad thing, some are very vibrant.
However, the design of this thingy
is very bad.
It's dark brick, oppressive, and really dark inside. From the outside, when I first walked past, I didn't even know it was a mall, it just didn't look like one. I had to backtrack. It looks like an official building, rather than a public mall.
Couldn't it just all be knocked down?
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