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Originally Posted by dleung
The ground floor is so squashed. The city should have a 18' minimum height for ground floor. I personally don't think any non-townhouse units should start below the 3rd floor. If people actually lived in all these condo units downtown, we won't have nearly enough retail space to serve them all.
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There never is enough retail in downtown Vancouver, and that's why people drive so much to go elsewhere, with hardly anyone walking the dead streets to do their errands in residential areas, unlike cities such as Toronto (Yonge, Queen, Dundas, Spadina, Bloor, Cabbagetown, etc) or Montreal (Plateau neighbourhood, St Catherine, Sherbrooke, Gay village, Old Montreal, etc).
However, with the Arc completed, and together with the Plaza of Nations and Falsecreek North lands redeveloped, the vicinity would be the first new retail neighbourhood centre created in this city in decades.