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Originally Posted by rdaner
Interesting. It looks like this site is less than a km from two future lrt stations.
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Close, but it's a stretch to say that it's well connected by them in the way that Rideau, St. Laurent or Bayshore are (or will be). If they ever improve transit along Carling, with all of the development in progress and planned along that stretch, Carlingwood will be the prime shopping destination for a large stretch of the city. The need for parking won't go away though with Canadian Tire as the anchor tenant though. There'll have to be a better located (or more accessible) parking garage to consolidate the surface parking (which does fill up on weekends). The current parking garages are behind the mall and offer poor access to CT (at least if you're wheeling a shopping cart).
It'll be interesting to see what happens to the mall - as a nearby resident, my only hope is that they develop it while keeping access to the current mall and retail that serve the community (ie not like Lincoln Fields where they bull dozed the mall for only Metro and future considerations). Even Westgate, they've at least kept the illusion of a mall (if for nothing else than as a place to hang out while waiting for Service Ontario).
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