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Sambo said:
The place was a dump.
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The parts I mentioned (splash park, food court, movie theatre, washrooms) were totally functional, and way better than what the next 5+ years will bring to the area.

Actually I don't even think it was a "dump". More of a ghost town. The retail there was terrible. Lots of strange stores you'd never want to shop at, with the same dusty inventory year after year, and lots of vacancy.
 
At least the market building had a movie theatre (which was actually the closest to my house and much more affordable than the new "VIP" format) along with some bars, restaurants, coffee shops and other amenities. If something were actually being built in its place anytime soon there would be cause for optimism, but this will just sit as yet more vacant, underutilized land alongside the nearby parking lots owned by pension funds in what should be the crown jewel of our downtown. Any way you look at it, if you care about downtown this is a terrible outcome.
 
I'm not sure exactly what people wanted... This mall was empty as of the summer because of the coming Green Line construction. Once the Province stepped in and killed that there was no putting the toothpaste back in the tube.

For safety and security you cannot leave a structure like this empty for an unknown amount of time. What we should be doing is emailing the mayor and council to get them to do something temporarily with the site, even something like Vesta did with their empty lot at 17th and 4th. Or, since it will be a flat parking lot, a drive-in movie theatre for the summer would be very cool.

Also it could just end up being a parking lot for a bit, while the Green Line is figured out, having a decent amount of parking next to the river and Prince's Island park isn't the worst thing if it gets more people downtown and using the fantastic river pathways.
 
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Albertasaurus said:
At least the market building had a movie theatre (which was actually the closest to my house and much more affordable than the new "VIP" format) along with some bars, restaurants, coffee shops and other amenities. If something were actually being built in its place anytime soon there would be cause for optimism, but this will just sit as yet more vacant, underutilized land alongside the nearby parking lots owned by pension funds in what should be the crown jewel of our downtown. Any way you look at it, if you care about downtown this is a terrible outcome.
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The movie theatre with the arcade bar was my favourite part, when they converted it to a gym I stopped going to Eau Claire all together.


They should plant grass and put some trees in temporary planters or something and make it a park for now. Going to be quite a while before something can be done with the site, so might as well make it green.
 
Pretty much just the theatre is left. They should do a final showing of some dystopian movie.

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