Waterloo Corporate Campus

[Markster]

I know that one.  It's a nice concept, but the reality is that Midland is a high-speed, heavy-traffic four-lane arterial road (pretty similar to Northfield, in fact).  Few people slow down enough to see the store signage, let alone stop.  And when I walk past there (to get to Starbucks), I rarely see anyone walking.  The result is that the tenants' street-facing windows are effectively being used just for signage, or are simply obscured. 

The intentions are right, but with this kind of traffic patterns, it's really hard to make it work.

Sure, it's "hard to make it work", but do you see any harm in building it that way? If even a few of the malls built this way eventually do transition to majority streetfront entrances, then I'd say it's still a success.