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By Skully (anonymous) | Posted March 24, 2010 at 20:58:45

Actually, that's "Greensborough"...Cornell is further along Bur Oak Avenue and features a "Main Street" of Live/Work Towns that were to form the village proper...the idea was you'd live upstairs and have your business downstairs (more than half of them are still sitting empty)...there was also another failed "main street" along Cornell Park Avenue (called the Cornell Mews, with condos on top), that, when we first bought, had a bank, a Jumbo Video store, a cafe/bar with a lovely outdoor terrace, hair salon, variety store, etc...three years later, the Jumbo Video went bust, the bank closed down (medical office), the hair salon shut (ob-gyn office), and the cafe/bar also became a doctors office...

New Urbanism is an amazing concept, but unless people buy into it and commit to leaving their cars at home, it's nothing but empty promises (and empty storefronts)...there was a great article in the National Post lamenting the "urban village that never was" and echoes many of the same sentiments I've expressed here...I'll try and find the link to post it here...

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