It needs a proper connection to the MTCC... That would bring a ton of people filtering in.
Also (way too late now) TIFF should have been connected underground. I work at the event space there and we don' get as much non-summer business in part because we are just outside of the core and the PATH.
The connection to Simcoe Place is awful!
You have to cross the parking lot in RBC's tower. :O
Only time I've seen that before is the daft design of the connection in Nathan Phllips/City Hall parking garage.
Who ever thought this up? Worse, who approved it?
Metro Place does suffer from being isolated in the Path system.
It also suffers from not having any off-hours draws (restaurants, notably, but also grocers and the like)
Given the pressing need for more grocery space in the area, that might be a good alternative here.
Just food court/food hall plus a supermarket w/built-in coffee shop/cafe might work better.
Though there would be a need to create visibility for such a retailer on the surface, probably on the King street side.