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Old 09-09-2011, 05:10 PM   #179
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Originally Posted by Jedi Ninja View Post
The Old Spaghetti Factory
The Old Spaghetti Factory, along with the nearby French Maid/Viper Room and Don Quijote restaurant will be vacated and torn down in the coming months to make way for the City Centre development:





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Originally Posted by Bertuzzied View Post
The Sony Store.

Why not just goto best buy or futureshop and see all the sony products PLUS other brands too.
As someone who works in the retail site selection business once told me, a big part of it is branding/marketing. You may not buy the Sony item in that store, but simply walking by it and/or quickly browsing through it keeps the brand in your mind.

The big banks often employ the same principle with many of their branch locations. A lot of it is about visibility.

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Originally Posted by North East Goon View Post
Marlborough mall is the perfect location to knock down and replace with low-income housing. Sunridge mall is becoming obsolete due to cross iron mills as well. I always wondered how a store like Northern Reflections stays in business. P.S. the Bonanza in Regina was terrible, totally ruined my childhood memories of that glorious restaurant!
Old women.

As for Marlborough Mall, it is a good site for TOD, not necessarily all low income housing. Some could be included in a TOD though.

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Originally Posted by browna View Post
Deerfoot Mall, Westbrook Mall have been covered...Deer Valley hasn't. A small ancient Zellers. Co-op at the other end, the requisite lounge that has VLT's as its main draw. A lottery booth, and the random mom and pop clothing/antique stores, and of course some schlub in one of those "As seen on TV" stores, who ended up buying a bunch of Ab Rollers and George Forman Grills, trying to make a margin on them.
Deer Valley Mall has actually seen expansion on the site with a couple strips of offices and stores on part of their parking lot on the east side. The mall itself is certainly dying and/or depressed though. I think the Co-op does fairly well, but that's about the only thing. I think the Zellers is actually the only one in the city that Target isn't going to re-brand/renovate into one of their stores. Not sure what will end up happening to it.
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