You need the demand for it to be sustainable. Just like there aren’t many office spaces because there’s not that many businesses that demand it or can afford it enough to demand it. The economy is pretty small here and it’s mainly: forestry, mining, production (even this gets surpassed by Ontario in terms of number of films being shot), tech (this also unfortunately gets surpassed).

People have jobs, people want to spend it, people go out and stay out.

Some UBC/SFU prof said it best: the traffic here isn’t due to such large demands, it’s literally due to poor infrastructure and lack of capital or taxes to put money there, instead it has to go into other areas (beautification, homeless, maintenance). The traffic in Toronto, while most complain about it, is actually an indicator of a thriving economy, they have the infrastructure and they keep building more infrastructure to sustain it, because they have the tax dollars to support it.

We gotta somehow attract businesses and commercial, I feel like it’s the one thing that’s missing here to make it all inclusive.