By Brent Bellamy, Architect + Creative Director Originally published in the Winnipeg Free Press From Rosser Avenue in Brandon to Yonge Street in Toronto, Canadian cities of every shape and size built a downtown indoor shopping mall in the 1980s....
By Brent Bellamy, Architect + Creative Director
Originally published in the Winnipeg Free Press
From Rosser Avenue in Brandon to Yonge Street in Toronto, Canadian cities of every shape and size built a downtown indoor shopping mall in the 1980s. These developments were a last desperate salvo in the battle between traditional main street retail and the new suburban shopping mall.
Image: A 2023 architectural rendering of a revitalized Portage Place. The anchor use for the redevelopment will be the Downtown Winnipeg Health Centre for Excellence, including a new tower with a range of medical facilities and services. (Architecture49)