Victoriaville Tear Down This Mall ? !!!!!!!!!!!

Has there ever been anything in the history of the Lakehead that was doomed to fail as much as Victoriaville? I am firmly of the belief that this place was a disaster in the making before a shovel ever hit the ground. Victoria & Syndicate was the busiest intersection in the city,and in someone's mind it would be a great idea to close it off,build a mall and route traffic around it, sound like a good idea? The city had been warned against a downtown mall by cities who pursued that route and later regretted it. Rather than revitalizing the downtown Fort William ward,the building of Victoriaville has led to its demise. Since amalgamation Thunder Bay has really not reached a central identity one,yet after forty years we are still to a degree Fort William & Port Arthur. If one goes back to the late 1950's when Simpson-Sears opened at intercity,followed by the strip mall the writing was on the wall if one had the foresight to read it, the intercity area was going to build up as a retail center of the twin cities.