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Originally Posted by esquire
I don't know where on earth you'd find a parcel of land big enough downtown to support a big-box grocer like Superstore or Walmart unless it was part of a larger development like in the podium of Skycity.
To put something the size of the Taylor Ave Walmart (store + parking lot) anywhere near The Forks you'd pretty much need to demolish Shaw Park and reroute streets. If you cut down the parking I guess you could eliminate the street rerouting part.
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True, however, I'm sure that loblaws could find a way to make a tidy profit out of a smaller store that stayed well stocked. They could do the basic thing and also do a bit of a higher end product too that emphasized healthy eating without the pretentiousness of say whole foods. Because the young professional crowd that is about to appear at 300 main, TNS, and hopefully Skycity (fingers crossed) would totally go for something like that. I think they could make it work with the approximately 1600 new residents brought in by these developments. But then again, I have no idea of the economics of these things