YourBoy007
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Question: If you could fill 1 empty parking lot/parcel/block in the downtown area (including all neighbourhoods), which would it be and what would you like to be built there?
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darwink
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Public market just south of 8th Ave Place, between 4th and 5th. Relatively cheap, leverages a huge amount of proximate parking, provides a every day 'destination' which downtown really lacks.
adamyyc
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Block between 9 Ave SW and rail line, between 5 St SW and 8 St SW. Central station surrounded by a central park.
Mountain Man
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9Ave between 8st and 5st for me too, biggest black hole of a parking lot, sucks the life out of the area. Mixed use development with a large park feature.
MichaelS
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South side of 8th Avenue, between 9th and 10th Street SW. Would love to see just a regular mixed use residential over retail, but if we are dreaming, one with a pretty cool design. Not necessarily a tower, would rather see something more human scaled, to complete this missing link of Stephen Ave in the downtown West End. Something like Mirvish Village in Toronto, but without the towers (I could live with one at the corner) would be fantastic:
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JoeUrban
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My vote:
701 11 ST SW.
Home of the original Mount Royal college. Demolished sometime between 1972 and 1975, a vacant lot ever since. 47+ years vacant.
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JoeUrban
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I decided to stop mucking up this thread and continued it here:
Water-cooler discussion thread
Question: If you could fill 1 empty parking lot/parcel/block in the downtown area (including all neighbourhoods), which would it be and what would you like to be built there?
YourBoy007
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So many empty spaces to choose from. For me, I would have to say behind the National on 10th between 10th and 11th Ave. Some retail and nice condos. That would be noice.
JoeUrban
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Good call. Clearing began between 1982 and 1984 and was completed by 1988. So 36+ years vacant.
FCC1982
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Would loooove to have this tower built on the empty lot with it’s foundations waiting below ….. been waiting for 40 years now:
Here is another angle:
Here is another angle:
Even though we don't need more office space and it's totally impractical, it would be cool to see that second phase of FCC built. It's one of the unbuilts that I wish had have been built.
YourBoy007
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Good to see many restaurants in CORE Mall food court extended their hours recently. They vary a little bit. If you weren't a breakfast place these restaurants were only open from 11:00am to 3:00pm which always frustrated me. Now, some are open as early as 10:00AM and as late as 6PM.
This is great news for the mall, commuters, and businessmen. Instead of them only catering to the lunch rush, they now are catering to people who want an early lunch or late breakfast, and now dinner.
This is great news for the mall, commuters, and businessmen. Instead of them only catering to the lunch rush, they now are catering to people who want an early lunch or late breakfast, and now dinner.
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Speaking of hours of The Core, reminds me of this stupid video where the guy shows that nobody is shopping at the Core.... but films it before the businesses are open 
The video deserves some downvotes.
The video deserves some downvotes.
Mountain Man
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What's the point that guy is even trying to make? he's in a mall before it's open, during Covid when everyone was working from home still. What a dumb video...
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