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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse
But of course in this sense downtown would have something special that the other places wouldn't. Not that each individual store would necessarily be better than locations elsewhere, but that there would be stores you couldn't find elsewhere or store combinations that you couldn't find in a single destination elsewhere.
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Exactly.
I wasn't actually meaning that the downtown businesses would be held to a "higher standard", but actually that to attract people to the downtown from elsewhere, the restaurants would have to be better (they are) and in nicer, more interesting surroundings (they are). Bars would have to be nicer and more plentiful (which they are) and offer higher quality libations (think Stubborn Goat, Stillwell's, The Noble, for example). Shops would probably have to be higher end or unique brands or smaller local ownership (of which there are already several examples of each). This model has already been proven out, I think.
However, if you live in say, Dartmouth, I guarantee you are not going to go to downtown Halifax to shop in Home Depot or Best Buy as long as there is one close to your home with lots of (yikes!) parking. Therefore, in order to support businesses which have several locations, you need to build a community first to support it, which was the intent of my post.
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