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Originally Posted by thebasketballgeek
If the city is truly serious about developing big box power centres and shopping malls too be more mixed-use spaces, this is probably going to be the development with the least NIMBY push back.
Wait until they start developing the parking lots on St. Vital Centre or KP for example. Especially if Gillingham is true to his platform which states, "Scott will also ask City staff and Council to develop rules permitting residential construction over medium and large retail malls, as-of-right, conditional on setbacks to minimize impacts on nearby residents."
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You can go bigger for sure at St. Vital. As appealing as the Northgate proposal Wpg_Guy mentioned is, it would have been tough to jam 600 units in midrise buildings on such a congested site with fairly limited road access. It would have become quite choked. It would have been easier to see that type of development taking shape right on McPhillips, but they already developed that area with CRU strips.
A place like St. Vital has numerous parking lots, especially along St. Mary's, that are very lightly used with good access. I could see some fairly high density builds going up there.