The December 5th Urban Design Panel meeting has two high profile projects on the agenda – Oakridge Centre and one of Aquilini’s arena towers which twice previously received unanimous design support.
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.