The only saving grace about a few large speculators buying a tonne of units will be that that might facilitate consolidation into larger spaces to potentially attract some kind of anchor tenant.
If you had a true "condo" approach with individual owner/operators (as it was billed as), you'd never be able to get a large block on board for redevelopment easily.
Terrible location and execution. Not only is the mall missing a critical mass of open store, I'd argue the city is also missing that critical mass of Chinese immigrants (for which this is a very attractive and familiar format) that other centres do have.
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