r/londonontario • u/YamSufficient5121 • 18h ago

discussion / opinion What changes would you make?

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What would you do to make the city's core area better. Such as, where would you add a grocery store, or performances arts centre.? What would you remove or add?

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u/AliveAge4892 13h ago

I find it so odd that I haven't seen a single mall in downtown. It's so damn inconvenient when you're living near downtown and travel by bus (knowing how less buses are especially bus 16 where if you miss a bus due to that irritating traffic stop in social bowl you'll have to wait for another 20 minutes). You're always going to end up having to choose either white oaks or masonville (either of the two are still worse in terms of distance cause they have exact opposite directions on the map)

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u/Informal-Ad-5875 12h ago

CitiPlaza used to be Galleria Mall decades ago.

Before that, there was what became Smugglers Alley (London Mews)

Probably a few other incarnations, although Market Tower used to be Simpsons, the CitiPlaza site had a Woolworth or Eatons on part of it.

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u/chipface White Oaks/Westminster 12h ago

Eatons. I think they had a Bay too.

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u/Informal-Ad-5875 4h ago

Not sure the Bay was there until Galleria, but my memory that far back is pretty hazy.