Mega-malls plans unveiled by Tsawwassen First Nation
Local residents give plans a positive reception
CBC News
Posted: Jan 12, 2012 7:41 AM PT
Last Updated: Jan 12, 2012 7:48 AM PT
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The Tsawwassen First Nation land use plan was developed after the band signed treaty with the B.C. government in 2007. ((TFN))
Plans by the Tsawwassen First Nation to build a mega-mall near the BC Ferries terminal got a positive reception from dozens of local residents who turned out at an open house on Wednesday night.
The plans include one indoor mall with 17 retailers covering 1.2 million square feet and three other major retailers on another 600,000 square feet.
There are also plans for office space, an entertainment complex and hotel and millions of dollars worth of highway infrastructure upgrades.
The band has partnered with Ivanhoe Cambridge to build the new mall, which will be roughly equal in size to the Metrotown Mall in Burnaby.
Chris Hartman of the TFN's Economic Development Office says band hopes to build a destination for locals and visitors to the region.
"We expect the Island to be one of our prime markets, and also part of the Interior. So people will come down to Vancouver, come down to Tsawwassen, stay for a number of days, shop, recreate, golf, waterpark, all those kinds of things that provide for a complete shopping experience."
The video has 'boosters' talking about people taking trips from Kelowna just to visit that mall and it's waterslides or something. Yeah right eh? "Let's drive past every other place of interest between Kelowna and the ocean, including Metrotown, and hang out in a mall for 4 days, then drive back. That might work in Edmonton in February, but not here
I am sorry, but this is a horrible development and goes completely against sustainability.
I can not think of a more out of the way place in our entire metro to build such a thing.
Not to mention the loss of ALR.
Double.....standards
Well I'm not a fan of the development it is a bit late to complain about the loss of ALR. The time complain was during the treaty negotiations not years after the land has already been removed.
Well I'm not a fan of the development it is a bit late to complain about the loss of ALR. The time complain was during the treaty negotiations not years after the land has already been removed.
And I did complain back then, and i still hate it today, so i will never shop there because i hate double standards, especially when it comes to chipping away our farmland for something like this.
there are two malls one mills mall and one lifestyle outdoor mall side by side
funny global reported in a negative way, the people they interviewed didn't like the big mall coming and voiced concern that it would kill small business in downtown tswassen
there are two malls one mills mall and one lifestyle outdoor mall side by side
funny global reported in a negative way, the people they interviewed didn't like the big mall coming and voiced concern that it would kill small business in downtown tswassen
It's not so out of the way. Remember that it will be directly served by the SFPR. It'll be 10 minutes away from the Patullo Bridge on the weekend. 15 minutes away from South Surrey. And so on.
If you are going to use your car anyway, would you rather drive into the rat's nest of Metrotown, or along the new highway to this mall?
The only thing similar this side of Langley that I can think of is Queensborough Landing, but that's a pale shadow of what is being proposed here.
This is for all those people who won't/can't use the malls that are along the SkyTrain lines. All of those malls suck to drive to... this won't suck to drive to.
As much as I'm against this development it is not as bad as it seems as far as transit is concerned. I believe the 620 runs every 10-15 min during peak service from Bridgeport station all the way to the ferry terminal. Also there are a number of other bus routes that would only have to be slightly rerouted to serve the new mall.
The Massey tunnel however does not need the extra traffic that will no doubt be generated from this thing.
Looks like more industrial land might be disappearing. Amacon recently purchased the Mott Electric site on 14th Ave in Burnaby. For the price they paid I suspect they intend to build residential.
Looks like more industrial land might be disappearing. Amacon recently purchased the Mott Electric site on 14th Ave in Burnaby. For the price they paid I suspect they intend to build residential.
I PRAY for some street retail when that goes ahead .... that area is in bad need of some. A Starbucks would do gangbusters in Edmonds near the Skytrain.
with the Safeway project up the street I think this area will see lots of change over the next decade.
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