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Old Posted Jul 11, 2011, 6:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Gaijin Punch View Post
Retail wouldn't survive in this location. The current closest retail is approximately 1,200 feet away, and shoppers won't walk more than 1,000 feet in any direction on average. It's easy enough to say, "yah we need retail", but you would need quite a large amount of retail in this project to create some type of retail density needed to make it viable, probably 20 to 30,000 SF which isn't going to happen. A few small stores along the street at the podium are pretty much destined for failure.
At first, yes. It isn't going to be immediately successful all by itself. But you have to start somewhere, and as the neighbouring blocks are built out, the retail concentration in that area goes up and the street becomes a destination for shoppers, especially if it becomes a mostly continuous streetwall all the way down to the library/city hall/civic square. It seems awfully short-sighted to put nothing there because it won't be immediately successful all on its own. If Surrey "renews" itself that way, it won't get anything done.
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