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Originally Posted by dleung
I visited the mall yesterday and was disappointed with the overall lack of vision for such an expensive disruption. The food court is the best part, but otherwise the interior public space, with the disjointed rectangular skylights framed by a distracting amount of drywall bulkheads, is a downgrade from the double 100m galleria from the original mall. The new mall doesn't "reimagine" anything; in fact I'm surprised by the lack of attempt to create anything resembling an indoor/outdoor street for basic wayfinding as was done at The Well in Toronto or the St James Quarter in Edinburgh. Instead, they just throw in Fazioli pianos, valet parking, led screens over the elevators, and over-designed seating steps that make the surrounding drywall look cheap and temporary in comparison. It's like the vision was about maximizing retail square footage and usable roof/"park" area, while sacrificing the quality of that square footage or whether the roof even feels like a park.
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These are all very fair points, the main floor is a write off and mainly caters to the affluent. However, there have been times I've gone in the weekday for lunch and the lower levels are pretty packed. I think we generally underestimate the appetite for luxury shopping especially with Nordstrom gone.
I'm still optimistic and in many ways it's already been a nice addition to my life. Have caught a couple games at Timeout Market and it's a good time. Considering the community centre/library, the office spaces, canadaline concourse and safeway/liquor store are yet to open it could get much better.
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