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Originally Posted by incognism
If it were to happen (and this would require Council to make developers move past the tower-in-the-park), it would be the corridor between Gilmore Station all the way to Holdom Station. It will take a while though, as the land is still dominated by car dealerships (including Coastal Ford and Destination Toyota, who both underwent significant renovations in the past 5 years) and light industrial/commercial.
I agree that this area has the potential to be something great, but it's going to be decades before it gets anywhere.
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Burnaby has approached it differently than Richmond -
The retail street around Brentwood Town Centre is Dawson St., which is not the main traffic artery - unlike what Richmond is doing to No. 3 Rd.
Personally, I think that Richmond should pedestrianize Hazelbridge Way rather than No. 3 Rd.
The analogy to Vancouver would like trying to pedestrianize Georgia St. as a retail street, versus adjacent Robson St. - I think that would be trying to do too many things in one place.
While Lougheed could certainly be beautified (it's been done from Madison to Gilmore, maybe paid by developers?), I'm not sure if Dawson as a retail strip will extend as far east as Holdom (I don't think so) - which means that the area area to the east of Holdom will not have much more retail than a "node" or two around major intersections or the SkyTrain station.
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In all honesty in that location such a development is fine, there is no where near enough density in the are to support much retail, and given the fact that much of the land near there is stable industry (such as the milk shipping facility) and park, i doubt much will change in the long run.
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