Mall Podcast #4: Bentall

Food Court In Session Ep 04 Bentall

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The year was 1967, and Downtown Vancouver was getting something new, something tall, something you might see in those big eastern cities of Toronto and Montreal: a series of giant office towers.

And with it came another thing that was somewhat common east of the Rockies, but new to Vancouver: a series of below ground, connected retail outlets, geared not as a destination unto itself, but for employees in the area. 

The concept can work for the workers. It can work in eastern Canada. But could it work in Vancouver? 

(Episode Guest: government policy director and co-op champion Kevin Harding)

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Theme music composed by Tom Whalen, www.echomenace.com