Some reorganizing will be coming to the city’s downtown soon.
The Downtown Business Improvement Association is working on trying to better manage what stores, restaurants are in the city’s core.
Executive Director Carla Johnston says currently people come to the downtown to seek out an individual store.
“What we are not seeing is people coming downtown, just for the sake of coming downtown,” says Johnston, “I’m sure everyone can think of an example whether its downtown Jasper, or downtown Robson Street, where they go ‘hey let’s go down there,’ and we are not quite there yet in the downtown.”
Johnston says when it comes to zoning, anyone can put up anything and the market will decide if the business is successful.
She says a housing development in the downtown would be a big step in getting more people and retail in the downtown core.
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