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Originally Posted by MonctonRad
Good find Budyser. Hall's Creek Village has updated their website again and now we have an even better idea what the street layout will look like.
I appreciate the layout of village one, and although it will connect up to village two and village three, it appears that the only way to get to village four and village five as well as on to Mapleton Road will be by the Crowley Farm Road. I think this is regrettable. I think there should be better interconnectivity between the different nodes of this development. The lack of direct connections will be a hindrance to pedestrian traffic (unless there are interconnecting walkways and bicycle paths). There likely will be (I can't imagine they would overlook this), but it would be nice to see confirmation on the site plan.
What do other people think?
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Well those are some very interesting renderings. I wonder to what extent they actually represent what they plan on building, that first 6-story building seems pretty large and I don't see anything on the plan that would approximate it. Unless that's what they have in mind for the future "villages".
I'm pretty confidant this would be popular once it gets started, it's the kind of development that is unlike anything else in the area (or the province for that mater). This has been talked about for years, not sure if the hold-up is related to the developer's financial issues or a reluctance to move forward with something different. I think the same could be said about Uptown Dieppe which stalled for a few years. Yes, the recession played a big role in Uptown Dieppe's slow start, but still, during this time, several other neighborhoods in the CMA have exploded population-wise. People need to be given a different option, something other than cookie-cutter suburbia. Something along the lines as what has been proposed, higher density, commercial/work/schools, places to actually walk to. As for Uptown; 1 or 2 buildings on an otherwise barren street hardly constitutes an alternative to other typical suburban neighborhoods in the metro area.
Come on Hall's Creek developments, stop this yearly, ritualistic relaunch of your website and get going already!!
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