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Originally Posted by 4X4
Firstly, Burninator's post was gold.
Next, I think this might severely affect the business center on the south end of Airdrie. This is like building a Wal-Mart in Banff for them.
But the other thing that sort of strikes me is that it doesn't really service the City of Calgary all that well. If you look at a map and consider which neighbourhoods would be inclined to go there, it's really just a portion of north central Calgary. The NE, not so much, and certainly not the NW.
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I don't think it would affect the south Airdrie buisness centre that much, really. CrossIron Mills doesn't plan on putting in any big box stores, perhaps because they are all less than five minutes away in Airdrie.
On a semi-unrelated note, hopefully they extend Main Street in Airdrie to Highway 566 as an alternate access to the shopping centre. Might help relieve some of the burden on Big Springs Road until the province gets off it's ass and twins the road under Hwy 2.
What I think it will severely affect, however, is Deerfoot Mall. That place is already completely dead most days, and I think I read that CrossIron was going to go with an outlet type idea as well.
I guess the big question is whether the horse track and casino can make the rest of the development work.