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Originally Posted by roryn1
This is not a prime lot. I personally avoid this area like coronavirus, I was attacked right there when someone came out of the back alley in the middle of the day only 3 years ago (that back alley would be part of the drive thru!) - our crime is now at a record high in Saskatoon. This intersection is very high in crime, and we should be grateful a business like Starbucks is going there to create more eyes to surround that rough neighborhood. This is very good for that corner.
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Totally agree. The strip between the 7-Eleven and Circle K is riff-raff central. At night it's very sketchy. This will at least add a little more normalcy to the area during the daytime. And as you say, there are far better lots to host the dense, mixed-use developments we all want in the core. This is a small lot on a crappy, busy intersection. I'd even go so far as to call this urban by Saskatoon's standards. Imagining residential there is such a pipe dream, at least for the foreseeable future.
Anyway, if the developers could make more money there with another type of development, why wouldn't they? I'm not likely to support the businesses there, but this is Saskatoon, and people want their coffee and donairs, and they want parking and drive-thrus. The developer knows their market, that's all, and there's nothing wrong with that, even if we might wish for something better.