Theatre Alley is a former walkway that used to be on this property at the far East end.
One morning I was speaking about the former Theatre and Theatre Alley with my early morning associates...
One of them mentioned that he hadn't seen people from a store in Market Sq. come in to "The Bean" since they started the Bambu project - parking lot closed.. Closed pathway means resistribution of the coffee and muffin market eh?
If you look at the sign that the Downtown Residential Assoc has posted to mark mark their work on tarting up the penetenitary fencing around the site you will see that they have noted Theatre Alley..
If any of you have crossed through there when the site was a parking lot, you may have seen Theatre Alley marked out with survey graffitii on the pavement..
It's been there a long time as part of the community...
Earlier this year someone posted a 1910? landuse map which included Chinatown and the Chinese Theatre was shown on it..
Lest we forget... in our haste to disparge mid block walkways...
In thinking about them and their value for a Vibrant Victoria, go look at the floor plan of the Mayfair and Hillside Malls and remember that the designers have incorporated many of them in their layouts.. - just like some of the wonderful urban spaces with lots of (groan) "permeability" for the pedestrian (shopper)...