I have heard discussions lately that they are going to tear down Market Village and replace it. Market Village has always been a bit odd in terms of architecture. It fit with the former Cullen Gardens, but once that was gone; it just looked like a former farm and hamlet turned into a mall. Renovations (from 10, 15 years ago?) to incorporate the hamlet part as part of the covered mall made it better, but Pacific Mall has long been the superior mall on that corner.

Now there are plans to drop one billion dollars to create a new mall, with a hotel and condominium attached to it. I guess some Chinese people visited Vancouver and saw how Chinese malls are supposed to look (like the Aberdeen Centre). The concept picture makes it look modern (and there are covered walkways to PacMall yay), but how many more cellphone stores do we need on that corner? Splendid China Tower still has a couple of phases to build!

Perhaps the best part of the article is this line though:

Beside Bratty’s Market Village complex is the 300,000 square foot Pacific Mall, perhaps more famous as a shopping destination for the latest pirated DVDs.

Posted by Kevin in Blogs Tags: chinese, DVDs, toronto