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Originally Posted by Xelebes
Sounds about right.
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bang on headline then:
Edmontonians ‘not surprised’ as City Centre mall faces uncertainty
https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/...d-as-city-centre-mall-faces-uncertainty/
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“Downtown shopping centres in general, let alone one as huge as ours, have been really challenged,” McBryan. “Suburban shopping centres have really kind of taken over when it comes to where mall shoppers want to be.”
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weird thing to still be saying in 2025. It's not a new thing that suburban shopping centres have taken over. I am sure it's been said in 1985, 1995, 2005, 2015... And while it's true downtown malls everywhere struggle, and have been struggling, i think the overemphasis that this isn't a 'unique to Edmonton' problem is a bit disingenuous. Are we comparing CCM against Vancouver's Pacific Centre and Calgary's the Core? Or are we comparing it against Winnipeg's Portage Place? There's a whole spectrum of what it means to be a "struggling downtown mall".
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