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David A
Senior Member
Yes, makes sense especially with Cask and Barrel right next door. It is nice to have this space on the corner, which was vacant for a while, finally filled. This block will be quite good now.
Kosy123
Senior Member
This is our busiest scramble crossing downtown too, so it makes sense to stack as many CRUs and activity as we can in this area.
wormwood
Active Member
Just say x5
The_Cat
Senior Member
^ squared!
Gronk!
Senior Member
Why Kunitz Shoes left downtown
edmonton.taproot.news
Kunitz finds footing with third commuter-friendly shoe store
The siblings behind Kunitz Shoes say they've cracked the code on indie shoe retail as they prepare to add a third location in Capilano Mall in the spring.
edmonton.taproot.news
ADob
Active Member
Man, I miss Kunitz and TomKat shoes, but then again, I suppose I spend less money this way, so...a sort of win?
TAS
Senior Member
Why Kunitz Shoes left downtown
Kunitz finds footing with third commuter-friendly shoe store
The siblings behind Kunitz Shoes say they've cracked the code on indie shoe retail as they prepare to add a third location in Capilano Mall in the spring.
I'm glad the approach we are taking as a city is to have many more residents living dt for long term sustainability versus free parking for people to shop downtown from other areas of city.
David A
Senior Member
It is unfortunate a nice local retail business like this could not make a go of it downtown. Unfortunately, the lack of decent retail downtown here also makes it harder to attract residents, which it is one reason why we really haven't had the growth in downtown residents that many other cities in Canada have had over the last several years to a decade.
I feel the extension of the paid parking days and hours by the city was short sighted. I doubt they are collecting more money, especially given that many of the remaining downtown retail businesses decided to close on Sunday and not stay open later.
I feel the extension of the paid parking days and hours by the city was short sighted. I doubt they are collecting more money, especially given that many of the remaining downtown retail businesses decided to close on Sunday and not stay open later.
JMatt88
Active Member
Really makes me wonder if we will ever have a vibrant downtown at this rate. It seems to be a chicken and egg situation/indefinite loop - need to bring people downtown but also need retail downtown - with neither happening, we will never achieve a level of vibrancy as other cities have. Calgary downtown has a Canadian Tire and Superstore (in the East Village Area), which is more of the retail we need if we truly want to grow the downtown, but this never seems to be a consideration.
David A
Senior Member
I strongly believe we need to work on three or four things together in order to improve downtown: public safety, more residential, more retail and attract more corporate offices.
These are all inter related but a lot of people seem to focus on only one or two of these and if we take that approach, it will probably not be successful.
These are all inter related but a lot of people seem to focus on only one or two of these and if we take that approach, it will probably not be successful.
SarcasticMarmot
Active Member
I have to say, I really appreciated the underground pedway system today. Made it easy to park underground at the Library, walk to the RAM (one of the city's great child friendly spaces), and pop over to the mall for an errand. All with a 1 year old who screams if they have to wear a hat. I know it's in vogue to want everything street level, and I usually agree. But today the pedway made it realistic to go out.
Saw lots of security around, and the elevator to the RAM didn't smell like pee! Twas a pleasant excursion.
Saw lots of security around, and the elevator to the RAM didn't smell like pee! Twas a pleasant excursion.
Seamusmuldrew
Active Member
I find this a bit hard to take given that downtown has had a dwelling unit net increase of 1.25k since 2021, including Williams Hall, The Parks, Lotus Park, Connect Tower. This does not include Lilac (239 dwellings) the 106 street Westrich project (201 dwellings) BLVD (54 dwellings) and the Massey Ferguson student housing project (696 dwellings, DP submitted on December 9th). 2,440 new units in the next few years doesn’t sound too shabby to me, probably adding around 3,500 people to the area.
I’m certainly no expert in retail, but this bodes quite well right?
Kosy123
Senior Member
It should. We should be closer or past 15k residents in the downtown boundaries by now at least, considering we had 12.5k residents in the area according to the 2019 municipal census.
Also we finally have a unit count for the Massey Ferguson project so that's quite exciting.
JMatt88
Active Member
TBD if these increases move the needle on additional retail coming in.