CBBarnett
Senior Member
It's reasonably good filler and certainly better than an parking lot - but once again our arterial road design limits how good this one could ever be. I suspect most access will be off the parking lot to the rear, rather than the side fronting a noisy, near-freeway quality of Bow Trail. Look for those retail bays to eventually remain locked and accessed only from the other side.As long as the windows aren't limo tint black like the building to the east it should be decent.
Bow Trail is a good example of the split personality in how we design our major roads. A weird combo of wide lanes, high capacity, green-wave signal timing and sound walls slice right through the older, grid-layout suburban areas, combined with intermittent freeway/near-freeway sections (Downtown to Shaganappi Point; 45 Street to 85th Street). I drive on this one regularly and it has to be a leading candidate in the city for road design-induced speeding.