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Originally Posted by Daveography
^ Can you expand on that? I must be shopping at a different Edmonton City Centre than you, your experiences make it sound like you accidentally wandered into Millbourne Mall or something.
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The look and feel of City Centre east feels dark and uninviting. The unfortunate west entrance, with the bus stop outside, feels like a Greyhound waiting area. The disjointed flow between floors results in circuitous foot traffic. The lack of meaningful retail outlets in CC East makes it more of a place to walk through to keep warm than go to and shop.
The number of dodgy people purely loitering about in the mall and lack of meaningful security presence doesn't exactly encourage one to linger and shop. And where the heck do all the low-end gangsta wannabees come from?
Compared to Calgary's downtown mall, Edmonton's City Centre mall isn't even in the same league. It's like MLB versus the farm team, on a good day. Or compare each city's Holt Renfrew. Night and day.
Not saying Calgary's Core is the be all and end all, but side-by-side, ECC is as embarrassing as can be. It does not sell Edmonton favourably.
I've known and lived Edmonton Centre since the days of Phase 1, even before the central court opened. What was once a flourishing, vibrant mall now feels like it's on permanent life support, and forgot to sign a DNR form.