“City Hall to Examine Plea for More Retail Space, Taller Highrises”

Allan Buium is standing at the southwest corner of Cambie Street and 41st Avenue, envisaging a future in which Oakridge Centre morphs from a shopping mall into a city within a city.

The chairman of a local citizens’ group, the Riley Park-South Cambie Community Visions Committee, recalls when the Vancouver mall opened in 1959 and attracted car traffic to its anchor tenant at the time, Woodward’s, and other retail stores.

Courtesy Globe & Mail.  For the entire article please click here: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/city-hall-to-examine-plea-for-more-retail-space-taller-highrises/article4568356/