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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse
Personally I think it's mostly simpler and easier because of car culture and suburbanization. When so many people live a long way out and so many people drive, both of those things will always skew the desirability of anything downtown. If we can create more in town density and more public transit and active transit usage, then the convenience factor will be firmly in downtown's favour.
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I think what you're talking about is building the downtown as its own community. Creating a market through population will make business owners see an opportunity to open a successful business in the area. If the market is big enough, then perhaps you will see some duplicate businesses from the suburbs make roots downtown.
However, if your goal is to attract others downtown, then you have to have businesses that offer goods or an experience different or better than is offered elsewhere. It's simple economics really. Businesses can't really exists just to provide a service to potential customers, they have to make money while doing it or they won't exist (for long).
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