Unlike the Champs-Élysées, though, the parkway has never filled in with high-end shopping or dining.
Less than a mile to the east sits Michigan Avenue with its high-end shopping and expensive housing.
The one that would bring back high-end shopping for the first time in nearly 45 years?
It made high-end shopping abundant but new space virtually impossible to find.
The city doesn't offer much in way of night life, or high-end shopping, or even superb restaurants.
A smaller, high-end shopping complex associated with a hotel was not doing well, and it was very near Calligan's site.
There are even those so victimized by gourmet glut that they totally opt out of high-end shopping.
But the high-end shopping is even more engaging - even if you are only browsing.
Main Street Village, a new $100 million high-end shopping and dining development, is scheduled to open as early as 2008.
North Tucson is also becoming the home of the city's high-end shopping.