At Laurentian Place, baby steps towards pedestrian-friendliness
BY DAVID REEVELY, THE OTTAWA CITIZEN APRIL 16, 2012
OTTAWA — Part of the former Laurentian High School on the northeast corner of Baseline Road and Clyde Avenue is still a construction zone with trailers and piles of gravel. Part of it is a Walmart that’s open for business. And part of it is an experiment: two buildings with 10 stores between them that are supposed to work both as strip-mall plazas with plenty of parking, and as storefronts attracting pedestrian traffic on a busy road.
Laurentian Place, as it’s now called, is a model for what the city calls an “arterial main street.” Is it a success? Sort of.
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