“I want my kids to come back here to Chinatown and run businesses, but I don’t know if I’d tell them that right now.”
forcing council to produce a public safety plan that will “increase police response” to the disorder — a move the mayor called “an overreach.”
Having operated in the area for about 17 years, Mu says the situation in Chinatown hasn’t always demanded such action, but over the past five to six years — and the last two in particular — a gradual decline and lack of support has left him feeling vulnerable and abandoned although police headquarters at 96 Street and 103A Avenue is only minutes away. Trespassers interfering with the business used to leave when asked, he said, but the streets feel more dangerous these days.
A volunteer with the Chinatown Transformation Collaborative collects garbage on the street in Edmonton’s Chinatown on Saturday, June 11, 2022. Larry Wong/PostmediaAlso the owner of the shopping centre, Mu says he has spent about $25,000 on storefront shutters after vandals repeatedly smashed the windows. Drug users and encampments have a habit of settling in the doorways, he said, littering the area with trash and syringes that deter not just customers but renters as well.
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