I was wondering around that new SmartCentre on Eglinton in Scarberia recently. It's a disaster ... to get to Walmart, to some of the other stores, you virtually have to walk back through the parking lot. There's even grass (not shovelled!) in the way, where you need to walk across in places. And the entrances seem to be on the back. It's crazy, I could have hit the side of the building with a baseball (well, if my arm was any good), and it's clearly part of the same complex ... but it looks like it's designed to drive from store to store - in the same parking lot??? Smart Centre? And I was driving!! I can't imagine what would happen if you were walking.
If this is what Don Mills Centre ends up like, I'll be quite unhappy.
The Don Mills Centre is not being built like the Smart!Centres with shops around the periphery. For this one they will be building a couple of main streets that run through the middle of the complex, lined with shops, a spot for a "town square" park in the middle, and then the whole thing will be surrounded by a sea of parking.
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