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The downtown area is an extremely popular place for tourists and local Victorians as that is where many of the movie theatres, stage theatres, hotels, restaurants, pubs, night clubs, and shops are. Many tourist attractions are located in and around the area including Bastion Square, heart of the 19th-century city's professional district.
The Bay Centre (formerly the Victoria Eaton Centre) is a shopping mall in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. It is bounded by Douglas, Government, Fort, and View streets, in the city's historic centre. [2] It has 39,115 square metres (421,030 sq ft) of retail space. [3] Opening in 1989, the mall was the first large shopping mall in downtown ...
The block between Store Street and Government Street has since been renamed Pandora Avenue, and the block between Government Street and Douglas Street is now part of Centennial Square. [3] In 1911, Victoria's Chinatown housed 3,158 people, [2] almost more than the entire population of downtown Victoria (including Chinatown and Harris Green) in ...
The shopping mall is bordered by major traffic routes including Shelbourne Street (on the east) and Hillside Avenue (on the south). [4] Hillside Centre is located less than one kilometre west of the Lansdowne campus of Camosun College and is about 3 kilometres south-west of the University of Victoria campus.
Cook Street Village, a commercial area characterized by sidewalk-flanking Horse Chestnut trees, low-height buildings and the absence of bisecting roads, is a popular shopping and social strip in Fairfield, with cafés, restaurants, small boutiques and grocery stores. In 2006, proposed developments within this part of Fairfield sparked concern ...
Market Square is a town square and shopping centre located in the downtown core next to Chinatown in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. There are more than 35 shops, restaurants, and clubs in the square.
Munro's Books is a large independent bookstore in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, located in a landmark heritage building on Government Street. It was founded in 1963 by Jim Munro and his then wife Alice. Since Jim's retirement in 2014, the store retains no connection to the Munro family. The store celebrated its 50th anniversary in ...
Downtown Victoria is a very walkable area with many midblock crosswalks, an expanding central pedestrian street, [97] public squares, and alleys that are predominantly spaces for pedestrians. [98] Fan Tan alley is the narrowest commercial street in North America and runs between Pandora avenue and Fisgard street in Victoria's Chinatown. [98]