Open Access
November 26th, 2009 · by Bill Hole
We’re excited that one literal path to the Enjoy Centre opened to regular traffic this week.
I’m speaking about LeClair Way in St. Albert, the connector road that allows people to exit Ray Gibbon Drive (which is connected to Edmonton’s Anthony Henday Drive) and to link to Riel Drive. Of course, Riel Drive has been extended south of Levasseur Road and now runs parallel to the east side of the Enjoy Centre site.
Certainly, the old adage “Location, location, location” is very true. And it was definitely a major consideration when we first started looking for a new site. If customers couldn’t easily reach us we knew it would be an impediment. But now that LeClair is open, we’ll be able to easily direct people to the Enjoy Centre.
Eventually, LeClair Way will join up with Edmonton’s newly aligned 137 Avenue further to the east. That section’s slated to open in 2012 and will further improve access to the Enjoy Centre. But right now, I’m going to go drive down the first section of LeClair Way and see what it feels like to be “regular traffic.”
Source: the City of St. Albert.