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Originally Posted by phesto
Most of the large scale developments with office space recently would've preferred to do more retail space and delete the office altogether - see Solo District, Marine Gateway, etc, etc. Office does little to support the retail demand.
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How does the retail demand created by office space compare to that created by residential though?
i.e. Retail can't survive in Yaletown, because there's no daytime pedestrian traffic, so it's converted to restaurants that open at night and service-oriented businesses (spas).
Office uses will support at least a food fair and services.
And of course it would be necessary to get some anchor stores in there.
I think Madison Centre across Lougheed still has empty spaces, despite 3 condo towers, a small office block and anchors Save-on-Foods and a small Winners (I could see Winners moving to this location and adding a Homesense, or maybe a Marshalls moving in)
The only other smaller scale TOD oriented retail complexes with condos (that are not regional malls) that I can think of are Plaza 88, International Village and Aberdeen Centre.