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CivicBlues · 09-20-2022, 02:23 PM

LOL at any "new downtowns" anywhere but the Downtown Peninsula. You can't just put a bunch of condo towers along a busy arterial road and call it the "new downtown". That goes for Broadway, Kingsway, Lougheed, etc.

Downtown needs employment centres believe it or not. A grid system of roads/transit, cultural institutions, and this needs to occur and grow organically. A bunch of developers selling you the next "downtown" or "next Yaletown" in Burnaby/Surrey/Langley is shoveling a bunch of horse manure into your mouth. That being said the closest things we have to a 2nd downtown in the Lower Mainland are probably North Van Lower Lonsdale and New West. Broadway in Mt. Pleasant has potential but it still has a long, long way to go.

09-20-2022, 02:23 PM	#23619
CivicBlues linguistic ninja Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Vancouver, BC Posts: 17,260 Thanked 5,515 Times in 2,022 Posts Failed 156 Times in 93 Posts	LOL at any "new downtowns" anywhere but the Downtown Peninsula. You can't just put a bunch of condo towers along a busy arterial road and call it the "new downtown". That goes for Broadway, Kingsway, Lougheed, etc. Downtown needs employment centres believe it or not. A grid system of roads/transit, cultural institutions, and this needs to occur and grow organically. A bunch of developers selling you the next "downtown" or "next Yaletown" in Burnaby/Surrey/Langley is shoveling a bunch of horse manure into your mouth. That being said the closest things we have to a 2nd downtown in the Lower Mainland are probably North Van Lower Lonsdale and New West. Broadway in Mt. Pleasant has potential but it still has a long, long way to go. __________________ http://www.en.wikipedia.org Still a card carrying member of the SFC :) Last edited by CivicBlues; 09-20-2022 at 02:29 PM.