Loblaws is better than nothing, but a No Frills would probably be something many more people nearby would take advantage of. Yes, hard to believe now but City Centre was a fairly good mall for many decades until around the time COVID. If you remember, the old grocery stores downtown decades...

The road itself, 104 Ave is a fairly major barrier, but the fan park will draw more people to the north side of it and is also close to Stationlands. So between it and more residential, this should help.

I recall there was an old three storey in the parking lot west of BP, similar to some other old buildings on Jasper Ave, but perhaps more run down. Then there was the big garage space for the car dealership (Healy), this was just one storey and fairly plain, directly north of BP where the park...

I saw people there when the weather was nicer a little while go, they or others will probably be back when it warms up again soon.

We can get into semantics, but if they called it a head office in Calgary or Toronto then its probably fair to call it that here. I realize Exxon is headquartered in the US and always has been, but likewise Imperial Oil is a Canadian company still a subsidiary of it but now with a smaller...

Hope so, there are other good sites available, some even quite nearby.

Free is always good and anything that could attract more people downtown on the weekends would help. If the concern is downtown vibrancy, then obviously it should be targeted at the routes to downtown.

Yes, some people actually want to go to a park to enjoy nature and not just to walk down a busy street with coffee shops restaurants and stores selling premium priced items to tourists. You can get that experience in most big cities. Last time I went to Lake Louise in summer the parking and...

The fact that you never see our EPS regularly patrolling downtown doesn't help either.

If a lot of people are saying this really sucks ... there is probably a reason for that.

Yes, this is a very valid concern, the operating budget for the city is even more constrained than the capital one. So while they may have some funds to build a park, will they have the funds to frequently patrol and adequately maintain it, so this does not happen?

Well there hasn't been buildings on these lots for decades. As I recall there were more buildings there in the 1990's, but those were torn down and became parking lots, in addition to the other lots which were parking lots already in the 1980's or perhaps even earlier. Hence the sea of parking...

I hope that because of the size, people who live here will interact more with and support retail and other businesses in the area, unlike some of the tall towers where people seem more disconnected and often just drive from their parkade to strip malls or other things not nearby.

Perhaps that is one reason why he wants to stay here and not go back to where he was from, but if they want to find him they probably will. Hope there will be no collateral damage if they do.

Not sure if the designer is colour blind, but the brown and the blue really do not go well together, otherwise it is ok. Just pick two colours and go with it.