Eau Claire I think suffers from the Calgary syndrome - it is close by, but not close enough. What I mean is that it is Downtown, but quite a way's away from the major office towers (when they were full). You can't really walk there, have lunch, and walk back to your office within an hour unlike the Core/Eaton Center. No plus-15 linkage kills it for the winter times. Also, their "industrial" look of grey concrete floors and bare ceilings with beams and pipes showing are not helping the aesthetics...
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