hotel brand is preparing to sign on and that we'll hear about it during the construction of the convention centre component. It's official, Marshall's is coming to town. I've never shopped there so no biggie to me but I guess it's important to some and interesting it's their 1stlocation outside of Ontario. Main floor of the new Western Financial building at Polo Park. Also, 2 other retailers are close to signing for the other two spots (1 new to city). I think people are wrong about the WCB lot. The concern is that the WCB employees have parking close to the building not that the lot never be developed. If a developer came up with a plan that say included tripple the current parking on that site with at least the current number of spots allocated to the WCB plus cash for the purchase of the land and had a plan for temporary parking during the construction that was suitable it would be developed. People are just not thinking outside the box enough or are not willing to pay the costs needed to develop the site. There is a saying that goes something like: if you have enough money you can buy anything. That is definitely the case here. PS: One "solution" might be to split the lot, build a parkade close to the WCB building with sufficent parking and then freeing up the remaining portion of the site for development. This would then have the potentinal to require less