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The Brunswick Square mall and connected office tower have been emptying out for a decade. Now there’s a renewed attempt to make it a community hub once again, using ideas like converting office floors to residential space.
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Mark Leger · CBC News
· Posted: Oct 13, 2025 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 26 minutes ago
Jason Gomke, right, opened Foggy City in the Brunswick Square food court to serve the high school students in the area. (Mark Leger/CBC)
Jason Gomke remembers the “way it used to be” in Brunswick Square, when McDonald’s anchored a first-floor food court that was always full of high school students and Starbucks was a mainstay on the second floor for the office workers from the commercial tower.
The Starbucks closed first, in 2016, and the McDonald’s followed in 2020, part of a gradual emptying of the city-centre mall in the last decade that accelerated during the pandemic.
Gomke began going to the mall as a high school kid in the 1980s and then spent 20 years working in the Uptown area after graduating from university.
He believes the mall can make a comeback — and he’s so confident that he’s opened a takeout in the food court geared at high school students and a souvenir and ice cream shop on the second floor.
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