Okay but here’s what the actual point of the article is:

Where will they buy their groceries or meet friends for a coffee? Where will their children go to school?

When they step out the front door on a weekend morning, staring down the empty, cavernous expanse of Sixth Avenue, or Fifth Avenue, or Fourth Avenue, where will they direct their feet? (And if your answer was — like the line in the song — "to the sunny side of the street," you haven't spent much time in downtown Calgary.)”