[J. Will]

I don't mind lots of retail square footage. I think that in itself is good. What I despise is the throwaway buildings that are built only to suit a certain kind of store that occupies it that is built so much today. I hate seeing pictures of empty Wal-Marts in the United States and reading that Wal-Mart refuses to let a competitor take the building over, so it remains empty. We haven't had much problem with that in Canada yet, but it could happen eventually.

To build a huge one story building surrounded by surface parking is bad enough. To have a chain abandon that building so they can replace it with a new one nearby while that building just goes to waste is criminal.