08-18-2015, 08:11 PM
A lot of these cures are already happening. There's loads of commercial going in along Maple Grove, both right on it and behind the police station in the Creekside Campus. Retail, too, at Highway 8 and Deer Ridge. More residential is going in in Preston Heights; the first foundations have been poured for the Grand River Woods project.
More office developments would probably help the area; make it a destination as well as a departure point. Smaller scale retail should be prioritized over big box; most of the stores we've discussed have been big box retail, which has proved more vulnerable to internal competition with other sites.
More office developments would probably help the area; make it a destination as well as a departure point. Smaller scale retail should be prioritized over big box; most of the stores we've discussed have been big box retail, which has proved more vulnerable to internal competition with other sites.