Mall Podcast #4: Bentall
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.
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