Mall Podcast #7: City of Lougheed
What happens to a mall when a redevelopment takes forever to take place? And what happens when a mall stops trying to be exciting, and in the process becomes a whole lot more interesting?
The year was 1969, and stop if you’ve heard this one before: a growing suburban part of Metro Vancouver was getting an exciting new mall.
“It is the largest shopping mall under one roof west of Winnipeg” said one of the developers.
It’s a somewhat generic beginning, and for a while, this mall seemed set for a fairly generic redevelopment into condos and mixed-use retail.
But what happens to a mall when that redevelopment takes forever to take place? And what happens when a mall stops trying to be exciting, and in the process becomes a whole lot more interesting?
(Episode Guest: New Westminster resident and Burquitlam fan Chelsea Watt)
(To read our essay and review of the City of Lougheed, click here)
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Theme music composed by Tom Whalen, www.echomenace.com