more at hazeldean and huntmar/iber
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There's going to be a 132,000 square foot development on the southeast corner of Hunt Club and Riverside anchored by T&T Supermarket.
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Its a Trinidad & Tobage thing. |
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^ These site plans (e.g. Hazeldean / Huntmar) are awful. I thought the city's design guidelines said that the buildings are supposed to be built along the street? The developers seem to be cirvumventing the intent of this by stil putting all the big boxes at the back of the site with acres of parking in front, but then putting in little drug stores/restaurants/banks/etc. along the road and saying: "see? we're building along the street!" It sucks, and the city's letting them get away with it. The Westboro Loblaws is a big box, but it's built right along the street and it works. Why can't they all be like that? |
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Sorry, didn't read the intersection carefully. That land at the SE corner has been promoted for commercial development for ages. The drug stores/restaurants/banks stuff that appears in the foreground in these big box areas is sometimes referred to as 'parasitic retail'.. I love that term...however, it is unlikely to appear in any retail market study or at an OMB hearing. |
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I can't ever imagine Hazeldean near Stittsville as somewhere people walk, but I can imagine people walking down Huntmar. |
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The new Super Wal Mart at Maloney/Autoroute 50 in Gatineau opened just over a week ago. I went there with my wife last weekend, just because 'we had to check out what they had'. The aisles are wide enough that a half-ton truck could easily navigate through them. I think it's about 1/4 of a mile from end to end. What a colossus.
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Hazeldean shopping centre nearly ready for construction
Though plans to build a shopping centre on Hazeldean Road between Kanata and Stittsville have hit some roadblocks, retail space is already 80 per cent leased, according to FoTenn consultant Miguel Tremblay. The consulting company representative is hoping construction can begin this summer. City planner Kalle Hakala said a zoning amendment needs approval before building can begin, which could take a while because an appeal is before the Ontario Municipal Board. “We can’t give (the plan) our blessing until it’s appealed,” Hakala said. In the meantime, he said the developers – Trinity Developer Group – and city staff are working out other details. Traffic, esthetics, shipping access and other necessities are being looked at, said Hakala. Also, the proposal has been circulated to several interest groups who have until Feb. 21 to give feedback. “All comments will come back to me,” said Hakala, adding that he’ll meet with the developers to discuss any changes. “We’ll make sure everyone is on the same page.” No public consultation meetings are required for this stage of the development. The site for the shopping centre is on the north side of Hazeldean Road, just west of the Carp River. The 8.8-hectare site will be developed and leased in four phases. There will be 11 buildings in total covering over 37,000 square metres with parking surrounding them, according to the site proposal. “It’s a good scenario that brings retail services that we need to the community, as long as it’s done at the same time as the Hazeldean expansion,” said Stittsville-Kanata West Coun. Qadri. Hazealdean Road is set to be widened in 2011, but Qadri said he is pushing to move that to next year to lessen the inconvenience for drivers while the centre is being built. “I don’t want the community impacted twice, I want it to happen simultaneously,” he said, adding that the infrastructure needs to be in place to deal with additional traffic. Even if road construction begins in 2009 the centre will probably be nearly completed by then, if Tremblay’s timeline stays on schedule. He said two phases are set to go up this summer and open next year. “No one expected it to go that fast,” Tremblay said about finding tenants and starting the work. “That says a lot about Stittsville and the retail market in particular.” Public comment can be directed to Hakala at 613-580-2424, extension 16228. The deadline for input is Feb. 21. Trinity representatives were unavailable for comment. |
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This thread makes HomeInMyShoes cry.
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the good news about Hazeldean/Huntmar is that there is rapid transit planned for the area
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trinity development
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Well at least it works for people doing grocery shopping from their cars, right? Well, no. You're funnelled along a fairly narrow passageway that often gets congested past the photo store and drycleaners, then past the takeout counter (which is usually busy with people hanging around), before you can finally round the corner to begin shopping in the fish and vegetable department. It could have been designed so that the dry cleaners didn't exist in that spot near the parking lot entrance, which would put you immediately in the bread/fish/vegetable section, avoiding the congested passageway and takeout counter. And if you just want some milk and eggs for tomorrow morning's breakfast, well that's an expedition to the other end of the store. The Westboro Loblaws does nothing to facilitate, let alone promote, pedestrian/cycle/transit-based frequent grocery shopping and they even manage to make car-based shopping annoying as well. The tragedy of the Westboro Loblaws is that from an urban design perspective, they got it about 90% right but then internally/operationally they got it about 90% wrong. The only saving grace from a long term perspective is that since the building is in the right place it can be "repaired" in the future. |
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site plan from p. 1 http://www.trinity-group.com/index.p...Mitch_SITE.gif |
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