(11-27-2020, 04:53 PM)westwardloo Wrote: I do think they could have dreamed a little bigger and included some retail component.
Yeah, seriously. A train station with no retail? I guess nobody involved has ever left the country before. When I lived in Germany, pretty much the only place you could get groceries on weekends or after 8PM was at the train station. If you were just on the subway, a streetcar, an intercity train or a high speed train and stopped at a station, it is expected there are places to eat, rest, buy a book/jacket/flowers/falafel/newspapers/wine, use a washroom, buy a place to sleep for the night, find out information or whatever it may be. Any city of roughly our size in Europe has a train station with multiple retail stores and they're extremely popular destinations even if you're not specifically using transit.
I'm obviously a cynic when it comes to development in North America, but I imagine this train station we're building will become basically a ghost town you only go to in order to catch a train or bus. It's so boring, ugly and sterile looking I can't imagine anyone wanting to spend time there for any reason besides that. Nobody is going to be going there to hang out, look at the fountains or enjoy the concrete public square.