Having a tough time understanding how the buildings are oriented. Is the surface parking facing Macleod Trail? The signage is for Retail that has surface parking? Happy something of any intensity is going there, it is just so hard to interface with Macleod in any meaningful way.
I really hate that the City is focusing on Macleod Trail as a Main Street it is an absolute lost cause. Elbow Drive and Fairmount/Bonaventure Drive should be Main Streets instead, both would be far better options. They are well-served/well-connected to transit, the blocks are almost all oriented correctly and they run through established neighbourhoods that are desirable and could really improve them in a meaningful way. Mixed-use low-rise apartments and townhomes, even street-fronting one or two storey retail on these streets would shape the neighbourhoods to be complete communities in an area of the city that doesn't have any functioning Main Streets. The City needs to rethink what constitutes a main street in established neighbourhoods of the south, and Macleod sure as shit isn't it. I would love to come in with (1) a four-storey apartment with retail at grade; or (2) a large land assembly townhouse development; on Elbow Drive, Fairmount or Acadia Drive, I really wonder how it would be received.