Thought I'd share this story about the closing of McNally Robinson in the recently re-done Shops at Don Mills. I'm not sure what this indicates about the success of the Shops, but it doesn't bode well.
http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/743686--mcnally-robinson-closes-don-mills-store?bn=1

I happened to see the same travelling exhibition (Vanity Fair Portraits) at both LACMA and the ROM and the experience gave me the last nail in the Crystal's coffin: the museum-going experience is substantially poorer in Libeskind's building.

In LA, the exhibition was shown in three traditional rectangular rooms, with the art arranged chronologically on the outside walls and ample skylit breathing space in the middle of the room. Here, in the Institute for Contemporary Culture space, the outer walls can't be used because they're too slanted; instead, a maze of inner walls is built to hold the art. Not only does this waste valuable floor space, but the flow becomes impossible to follow. I heard some complaining of dizziness after navigating the angled room for an hour or two. There was a dramatic shortage of seating space in the ICC, and the upper windows had been blacked out due to an inability to control the light. While it was still possible to appreciate each photo, the overall sense of the collection got lost in the overwrought and cluttered space.

If Libeskind had wanted to put a Crystal-shaped sculpture in a park somewhere, I'd have no complaints. But we'd never spend $250 million on a single piece of public art; for that money it needs to serve the museum's mandate. I agree entirely with the Post: it's a spectacular failure.