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Originally Posted by yveseluj
Not to be pedantic, but SaskTel has mall-facing floor retail in their building; their store + the glasses store. Nothing street-facing, though.
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Indeed. Street-facing, it might be the worst building in all of downtown. It's actually got a concrete bunker around it. Okay, it's not a bunker, but it is terrible.
There are some reasonable buildings in the core for interaction. Agriculture Place is probably the best of the new ones because it managed to get a coffee shop and an eyeglass place in it. The Grenfell Tower while old has decent commercial space and a covered spot. It's taken a beating from the retail implosion downtown, but the spot is decent and could be a great spot for a restaurant as well. Even the TD Bank has managed to get some CRUs in the bottom on Hamilton Street and when the donair place was there it was inviting and almost lively. There's opportunities in the core, but we need some sort of plan to make it happen and we need to incentivize moving your business to the core instead of out to the suburb commercial zones.
But that kind of attitude is not part of the city's mandate and hasn't been for decades.