More on the New Development at Piedmont & Cheshire Bridge

This is the artist's rendering of the development that Millcreek Residential has on their website now.   It would appear that name of the development (previously the somewhat deceptive Morningside Park) has been changed to Modera Morningside.  I am not sure what "Modera" means -- I think it's one of those words that marketing people make up that doesn't actually mean anything, but I'm not sure.  (Interestingly, the name of the GIF image is "Morningside Heights," which I actually liked -- sort of an amalgam of Morningside and Piedmont Heights, the neighborhood on the other side of Piedmont.)

Iain and I have been trying to figure out where the viewer of this imagined scene would have been standing.  I thought it would be from the gorilla car wash (I thought the woman on the far right, walking straight ahead with the Coke in her hand, had left her car there to be washed) but we went there this morning and walked around.  It clearly was not the future view from the gorilla car wash and maybe not even from Grind House (the only establishment on that block on that side of Piedmont that has any landscaping, I might add, but even there not the lush greenery in the foreground of this drawing).  Our guess was it was from the BP station.

Here's the view from the BP station (inexplicably devoid of cars on Piedmont).

And here's the BP station, which does not have vegetation between it and the street.

The other curious thing about the artist's drawing is the near absence of cars on Piedmont.  Now, as my photograph above shows, it is possible at just the right time to capture such a view.  But this photo, also taken this morning, is more typical:

A notice recently went out to the neighborhood, that the Millcreek construction team would be doing roadwork over the next several months that would impact Piedmont, Cheshire Bridge, and Piedmont Circle, resulting in "slight road closures" and detours.  I'm not sure what a "slight road closure" is but if it requires a detour it sounds to me like an "actual road closure."  At the community meeting that Iain and I attended back in March, there was mention of a traffic study, but it wasn't done yet.

Is it done now, and if so, what did it find?  

Just curious.