The Downtown Victoria Business Association will be leaving it's office space at #20 Centennial Square and relocating to #200 764 Yates Street at the end of October.
The City of Victoria wants the space for Bylaw Enforcement offices. More blanked out windows along the Centennial Square Arcade. Row after row. Uninviting and repellant.
How will this help the revitalization of Centennial Square? The 2018 Centennial Square Action Plan urges the City to return the arcade spaces below the parking lot to commercial use. The City is in the process of expending a further $750,000 for the revitalization design and planning process but won't take the advice they previously paid for.
Back when the retail sale of cannabis was first approved, the City would not allow retailers to blank out their storefronts. They had to show something of interest to the passerby. But the City seems to do this with impunity!.