Monastery Lane concrete road section

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Well, maybe they were barricaded at the time of construction. I would have been pretty young then, and lived in Dartmouth, so didn't have much of a sense of the "pulse" of Halifax. (have much clearer memories of developments around Mic Mac, Penhorn, and Woodlawn areas)

It amazes me that they thought it would become a busy shopping centre. I mean, the potential, in 1970's planning at least, to have taken a large area like that entire parcel including the tower, parking lot and low-rise apartments and condos behind and developing an indoor Eaton-Centre-esque mall probably existed, but lets be realistic. What did they put there? A Canadian Tire and a grocery store linked by a half-dozen small services like dry-cleaners and a bank and some professional offices. Who was ever coming in droves for that?