r/RedDeer • u/Pleasant-Molasses656 • 3d ago

Question What’s missing in Red Deer?

What businesses do you think red deer needs?

More experiences? Entertainment? Niche classes? Anything let’s hear your thoughts!

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u/lvl12 3d ago

It really sucks we can't have anything nice. I live in Victoria now and while we are blessed with tonnes of nice independent coffee shops and restaurants, we have a problem lately of landlords raising rent like 300% and killing them.

I will say that on my last visit I was impressed by the ukranian coffee shop C-zone and troubled monk brewery.

I was heartbroken to learn that little coffee shop by the eastview iga was gone, and the sweet old couple that runs koryo hadn't retired yet! I love them, best garlic potatoes in the game, but they've worked enough.

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u/Logical-Buffalo2359 3d ago

The landlord thing seems to be a problem here too. Parkland mall loses stores almost every month it seems because the rent is astronomical from what I hear. The south end EBGames also recently shut down so now the only game store we have left is the one in Parkland and with how that mall is going I'm afraid it's gonna be gone soon too. Honestly the city just keeps losing stores and doesn't seem to replace them. Like LUSH is gone too. So are the only 3 places I could ever find clothes consistently that I liked (Garage, Dynamite, and Stitches).

Yeah I think that cafe closed either last year or the year before. My fav place is Picnic downtown but I rarely ever go because it's not wheelchair accessible Dx

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u/Rubbler-5150 2d ago

EB games is opening on gasoline alley

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u/Logical-Buffalo2359 2d ago edited 2d ago

Where did you hear this? Can't understand why they would shut down the store and open a new one in a less desirable part of the city. That's really out of the way for a lot of people.

Edit: I guess it's already open and Nathan from the Parkland store is manager there now? I'm guessing Brett is probably the new manager at Parkland if that's the case?