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Man, there's not much left inside Westmount Mall anymore, but it will be sad to lose Revolver (if they are one of the affected tenants). Not too many shops like that around these days!
 
Gus Haynes said:
Man, there's not much left inside Westmount Mall anymore, but it will be sad to lose Revolver (if they are one of the affected tenants). Not too many shops like that around these days!
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Revolver has another location in Bonnie Doon Mall.
 
I mean what do we think will become of Westmount? It doesn't have the LRT connection that Bonnie Doon has to become a full TOD but it is connected to a transit centre. Any chance we could see some residential, or are we looking at more strip mall sorta fate similar to Capilano?
 
I remember going to that mall at an early age. It was an open air mall originally. Johnston Walkers, Woodwards food floor, Westmount Kitchen. It lost a lot after they capped the mall. Also the theater was across the road originally.
 
This is what is happening with Westmount (selective demolition):

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Basically, Safeway, Home Depot, Shoppers, Mark's, GYMVMT and Covenant Health are all staying put. The rest of the mall is being opened up so that the CRUs all have exterior-facing entrances. There isn't much new parking being created, which is a good thing. The old Walmart space is being split into two new CRUs as well.
 
I realize power centres are in fashion and cheaper, but for our supposedly cold climate, I don't find going outside to go from store to store really that enjoyable for a good part of the year.

There was a reason the mall was enclosed. So I suspect more people will just take a pass from going there and go to other malls in the area instead.
 
I think that this has potential -- opening it up like the Brewery District with the ability to redevelop portions of the parking over time -- putting it underground, adding to significant mixed use possibilities with housing/micro-hotels atop ground-floor retail and second-floor services. I know that this is not connected to LRT but it has other site advantages being adjacent to the architectural marvels at Coronation Park -- the soon-to-be Velodrome, the Space Sciences Centre, the historically significant Planetarium and the Peter Hemingway Fitness and Leisure Centre. Other pluses include Ross Shepard High School with its attendant athletic grounds, a public library, and a mid-rise retirement centre. In all the makings of a 15-minute City Centre. And if you wanted to dream, how cool would it be to see a Gondola project revived that initially went from the Westmount Transit Centre following the contours of the Groat Road into the River Valley and up the other side to the University of Alberta with LRT connectors at Sam Dickson Park (Stony Plain Road adding another station to Valley Line West) and the intersection of University Avenue and 114 Street with an aerial pedway connection to the Hospital LRT Station and all adjacent Special purpose buildings . Other stops in this dream world could be Government House (breathing new life into the former Museum building), a redeveloped Victoria Park, and Hawrelak Park -- 6 stops in all, a similar scale as to what was proposed from Strathcona to Downtown. A future expansion could run east along Whyte to Bonnie Doon (also thereby connecting to LRT) and North along Groat Rd. extension to St. Albert.
 
archited said:
I think that this has potential -- opening it up like the Brewery District with the ability to redevelop portions of the parking over time -- putting it underground, adding to significant mixed use possibilities with housing/micro-hotels atop ground-floor retail and second-floor services. I know that this is not connected to LRT but it has other site advantages being adjacent to the architectural marvels at Coronation Park -- the soon-to-be Velodrome, the Space Sciences Centre, the historically significant Planetarium and the Peter Hemingway Fitness and Leisure Centre. Other pluses include Ross Shepard High School with its attendant athletic grounds, a public library, and a mid-rise retirement centre. In all the makings of a 15-minute City Centre. And if you wanted to dream, how cool would it be to see a Gondola project revived that initially went from the Westmount Transit Centre following the contours of the Groat Road into the River Valley and up the other side to the University of Alberta with LRT connectors at Sam Dickson Park (Stony Plain Road adding another station to Valley Line West) and the intersection of University Avenue and 114 Street with an aerial pedway connection to the Hospital LRT Station and all adjacent Special purpose buildings . Other stops in this dream world could be Government House (breathing new life into the former Museum building), a redeveloped Victoria Park, and Hawrelak Park -- 6 stops in all, a similar scale as to what was proposed from Strathcona to Downtown. A future expansion could run east along Whyte to Bonnie Doon (also thereby connecting to LRT) and North along Groat Rd. extension to St. Albert.
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I stopped reading at Brewery District. What's the point of having an underground parkade when the management at Brewery District insists on punishing us shoppers with their frequent closures and escalator outages of the parkade?
 
Edmcowboy11 said:
Sorry maybe just the mood I'm in this morning, but as much I'd rather see an idea a archited posted my pessimism tells me we will simply get an uninspired power center like every other power center in this city.
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Agreed, and I have had my coffee and am feeling fairly good this morning. I am usually a bit more optimistic, but not here, perhaps because Westmount has a history of not impressive redevelopment.
 
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