01-13-2015, 09:47 AM
Long street fronts occupied by opaque businesses ruins walking areas. If it weren't for the LCBO, the stretch of King in UpTown South of Starbucks wouldn't get any foot traffic, because the street fronting businesses there deaden the area. When they are on non-ground-level floors, leaving pedestrian level for interactive and engaging street fronts, this is not an issue. If you look south on King from this location, it is an expansion of an already large dead zone, soon approaching an area that will only further divide pedestrians to those starting and staying either north or south of Frederick. Very sad, actually.