Looks like a good choice for roadside...
shade or specimen tree; in either case, its extremely fine-textured, filtered shade is almost unique amongst commercially available large trees, allowing plants that prefer partial shade conditions (certain turfgrasses, shrubs, and perennials) to be planted underneath that normally could not grow beneath other shade trees
often used, along with Green Ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica), as a shade tree for extreme urban stress areas (such as parking lot islands and sidewalk tree squares); in these areas, the stresses encountered include restricted root zones, poor rocky clay soils, alkaline soils, intense heat, drought, high light reflectance, Winter salt spray, and trunk/branch wounding) Source
http://hvp.osu.edu/pocketgarde...
