Christy's is a 1,400 square foot retail donut shop built as part of a city redevelopment project to transform a blighted residential and retail corridor into a parkway and transit spine. The design sought to reconcile the often contradictory requirements of roadside strip architecture attuned to the scale and demands of the automobile and the desire to create a pedestrian oriented urban space to serve as a focus for the adjacent residential neighborhoods. A large architectural frame with integral signage addresses visibility from a passing automobile while a high parapet wall is scaled to define the space of the arterial roadway, in much the same way as commercial buildings of the 19th century American West. Palm trees and seating planters define the public pedestrian plaza along the street and parkway.