Posted Apr 16, 2019, 10:50 PM
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I think if you look at the area surrounding Harkness Station exactly as it is today, it’s not a great location – but that’s ignoring the potential. It was also built as the last stop on the transitway because the city knew Union Station was/is 10-15 years away from opening unfortunately.
There’s a TON of un- or under-developed land within a 2 minute walk of the station. This project is evidence of that, the corner lot beside it, the one story strip mall across the street could be redeveloped, there’s half a city block that’s flattened now where the MB Housing was – ripe for dense redevelopment. Not to mention all the space between this project and WWC could be much better used.
This station is great in that it wasn’t developed with a sea of parking and roads separating it from potential “TOD” like many of the upcoming ones, and there’s lots of potential for new, denser development around it.
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