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Kingsway Mall has rewritten its master plan to embrace LRT and could soon add high-density residential space, offices or more retail if Edmonton picks that transit line for new investment, the mall’s general manager says.

And it could mark a major shift in Edmonton’s treatment of transit. Susan Denney said the mall wouldn’t shunt transit riders to the far corner of the parking lot.

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“Ideally, if we were to do something, we want to make it as convenient and accessible to the customer as possible,” she said. “Public transit in Edmonton as a whole has changed and grown and gained more traction. All of that has got us looking at this a little differently.”

Most transit stations in Edmonton are standalone. They’re set at the far end of mall parking lots, disconnected from retail or residential spaces. At Southgate Mall, where a combined LRT/bus station sits just metres from the mall’s west entrance, passengers have to go down a set of stairs and outdoors before they can shop.