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Originally Posted by Acajack
If I were Place d'Orléans management I might be concerned about Target eventually packing up and moving to Innes as well.
I know people will say that with all the development southwards that Innes will someday be at the centre of Orleans, but it still seems weird to me that so much of the shopping in a community is concentrated in one extremity. I mean, from some places in northeast Orleans, the businesses on the Innes strip are almost as far as St Laurent Shopping Centre, and probably take longer to get to because of all of the stoplights. It just doesn't make sense from a community planning standpoint, and is even more stupid when you consider that Orleans already had a main shopping strip and "heart" on St Joseph. Place d'Orléans stole some thunder from St Joseph but at least it was along the same axis.
This "jettisoning" of an established main street in favour a new one is just soooo reminescent of the worst planning decisions made by so many cities over the past few decades, and explains why you now have decline and blight on many commercial streets even in fairly prosperous suburbs in the US.
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If the LRT is extended to Orleans, it could certainly act as a redevelopment trigger. Innes is definitely a mess, but I guess they were "bribed" by the big boxes who had no other obvious location to set up in Orleans. The distance along the whole stretch is about 3 km - too long for most people to walk while shopping between stores. To put it in perspective, that is roughly the same distance along Bank Street between Parliament and Lansdowne Park.
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