05-05-2020, 01:56 PM
(05-05-2020, 09:21 AM)ac3r Wrote: I love how the renders always make the streets look so busy and full of people from all walks of life. Downtown rarely looks like that, and half the people you see out are people you want to ideally avoid. "Got any change?". Hopefully with time, the streets will have a good level of activity, but I think we're in desperate need of interesting retail, food and amusement (galleries, bars, theatres, cinemas, cultural centres, workshops) to really get us there. If you live downtown, you're forced to go shopping elsewhere for the most part. If you live outside of the downtown, there is very little reason to go down there to find something you can't find closer to you.
As someone who lives, works and (often!) shops downtown, I would say that, outside the current pandemic, the DTK streets are pretty lively during weekdays, but quiet in the evenings and on weekends. More people living downtown will continue to change that: we will soon have Charlie West, DTK, Garment St, Arrow 2, Market Lofts, Drewlo, Barra and Weber/Scott developments adding maybe 3000 residents to downtown. To be followed by Station Park, Avenue M and Weber/Ontario in short order. With more people will come more retail.