Get over that whole shtick. Firestone owned the land and had the money to develop it and buy a franchise. No one was offering land downtown, in return.  Kanata is where the small and -ize affluent business interests are, people who can buy season's tickets and in many cases write them off their taxes. Orleans, Blackburn are full of RCMP, DND,  Bell, NRC, etc. They cannot write tickets and meals off and they earn public sector salaries in the main. I have lived in both ends and the difference is quite dramatic if one  scratches a bit. Unfortunately Ottawa is a linear city, not a square. Makes muni transit very hard to plan too, and with just one road across, it is a nightmare. There is no access from the Qway to go from the QWay to Lebreton or that area. Was supposed to be the Kent Expressway, before they built office buildings too close to the road allowance.