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.
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