The Parks | 146.91m | 45s | 35s | 13s | Pangman | Hariri Pontarini

[Tropical]

The usual:
payday loan dealer
cannabis shop
liquor store
beauty salon
medical clinic

The adjacent blocks have very few of these things. The most common establishments are restaurants - particularly quick service food targeting office workers and students. There is also a cluster of nightlife in the area. Cannabis and payday businesses are struggling to stay open, plus liquor stores require zoning that doesn't allow them to open next to one another.

Given that an expanding Norquest is next to this, I would expect more of the same.

 

[David A]

The usual:
payday loan dealer
cannabis shop
liquor store
beauty salon
medical clinic

Well the payday loan store just south in the old building that is on borrowed time seems to be hanging in and doing fine, so perhaps it makes sense they just move into one of the new spaces.

Although it might be a bit upscale for them. Maybe there a can also be a restaurant, a coffee shop or say even something useful like a shoe repair place (there was one before in the old building also).

 

[Gronk!]

The adjacent blocks have very few of these things. The most common establishments are restaurants - particularly quick service food targeting office workers and students. There is also a cluster of nightlife in the area. Cannabis and payday businesses are struggling to stay open, plus liquor stores require zoning that doesn't allow them to open next to one another.

Given that an expanding Norquest is next to this, I would expect more of the same.

Well the payday loan store just south in the old building that is on borrowed time seems to be hanging in and doing fine, so perhaps it makes sense they just move into one of the new spaces.

Although it might be a bit upscale for them. Maybe there a can also be a restaurant, a coffee shop or say even something useful like a shoe repair place (there was one before in the old building also).

I made my post in jest since there appears to be a deluge of cannabis and liquor stores in this city.

As long as The Parks doesn't have CRUs that remain empty for years (looking at you, Augustana) then I think I'm good,

 

[David A]

Yes ... and a number of Shoppers Drug Marts and Subways too. Shoppers seems to have taken over due to the dearth of convenience stores, Subway due to the lack of other street front fast food chains.

It would also be nice to have more variety and useful things, again like shoe repair. I realize the new spaces are more expensive than the old ones, but we keep on losing the small but useful things that make downtown livable and instead end up with long term empty CRUs in some of the new buildings.

IMO we also don't need more restaurants and coffee places, but they seem popular and perhaps nicer than more cannabis and liquor stores.

 

[NicolBolas]

The adjacent blocks have very few of these things. The most common establishments are restaurants - particularly quick service food targeting office workers and students. There is also a cluster of nightlife in the area. Cannabis and payday businesses are struggling to stay open, plus liquor stores require zoning that doesn't allow them to open next to one another.

Given that an expanding Norquest is next to this, I would expect more of the same.

Tell that to the northeast of Edmonton. There is 9 liquor stores within 10 minutes of me.

 

[Tropical]

Tell that to the northeast of Edmonton. There is 9 liquor stores within 10 minutes of me.

10 minutes walking or...