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RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours - jeffster - 10-02-2018

(10-02-2018, 04:59 AM)plam Wrote: Huh? Thrift stores in malls?!?! That doesn't quite seem like the intended audience.

Well, Frederick Street Mall isn't your typical mall. Just sayin'.


RE: General Retail News - tomh009 - 10-06-2018

Some more progress on the new LCBO store. According to the staff at the current location, the opening of the new store is planned for February.

   


RE: General Retail News - Spokes - 10-06-2018

Big progress.
Upper floors are commercial? Or LCBO?


RE: General Retail News - taylortbb - 10-07-2018

Upper floor will be office.


RE: General Retail News - Spokes - 10-10-2018




RE: General Retail News - rangersfan - 10-11-2018

I never went but I always thought it was a creative idea, too bad that it didn't work out.


RE: General Retail News - Rainrider22 - 10-11-2018

(10-11-2018, 05:53 AM)rangersfan Wrote: I never went but I always thought it was a creative idea, too bad that it didn't work out.

I went there numerous time.  Always busy when I was there.  I loved the place..  It will be sadly missed.


RE: General Retail News - panamaniac - 10-11-2018

(10-11-2018, 09:37 AM)Rainrider22 Wrote:
(10-11-2018, 05:53 AM)rangersfan Wrote: I never went but I always thought it was a creative idea, too bad that it didn't work out.

I went there numerous time.  Always busy when I was there.  I loved the place..  It will be sadly missed.

I thought their food was excellent, although the food prep/service model was not everyone's cup of tea, at least not if you were in a hurry.  The bicycle aspect of the business seemed superfluous to me.


RE: General Retail News - Spokes - 10-11-2018

(10-11-2018, 10:06 AM)panamaniac Wrote:
(10-11-2018, 09:37 AM)Rainrider22 Wrote: I went there numerous time.  Always busy when I was there.  I loved the place..  It will be sadly missed.

I thought their food was excellent, although the food prep/service model was not everyone's cup of tea, at least not if you were in a hurry.  The bicycle aspect of the business seemed superfluous to me.



RE: General Retail News - jamincan - 10-11-2018

Road cyclists love coffee and cafes and if there's a good one, will go back again and again and again. The problem is that you don't normally end up in Belmont Village when going out on road rides.

Popular spots:

Balzacs (Stratford), Monigram (Galt), Anna Mae's (Millbank), Bonnie Lou's (Floradale), Belwood Country Market (Belwood), Flying Monkey (Campbellville), Brown Dog (or whatever they call themselves now) (St. George) among others.


RE: General Retail News - tomh009 - 10-13-2018




RE: General Retail News - GtwoK - 10-14-2018

Anyone know what's going in on Hespeler road next to Starbucks? Used to be an RBC there I believe, before it was torn down.

Whatever store it's for, the building has a very nice street presence, fronting directly on the corner of Hespeler and dundas (is that dundas?). Seems to take up the entirety of the street frontage too, right to the property line.

Honestly, this is what Hespeler road should be aiming for. Nice to see something like this finally go in, whatever store it might be for.


RE: General Retail News - kwlifer - 10-15-2018

(10-14-2018, 08:51 PM)GtwoK Wrote: Anyone know what's going in on Hespeler road next to Starbucks? Used to be an RBC there I believe, before it was torn down.

Whatever store it's for, the building has a very nice street presence, fronting directly on the corner of Hespeler and dundas (is that dundas?). Seems to take up the entirety of the street frontage too, right to the property line.

Honestly, this is what Hespeler road should be aiming for. Nice to see something like this finally go in, whatever store it might be for.

It's Hespeler (Americans cannot pronounce that funny enough lol!) Road and I believe Sheldon Drive. I work near there and totally agree, looks much better and definitely should be what they need to do on that stretch of road.  What a mess of a road. There is another white dentist building that looks like the same thing, being built right to the street corner of Hespeler and Eagle/Pinebush, although the colour choice of white, for me doesn't look quite right (I get it, it's a building for a dentist office), but what is absolutely horrible is the huge, God awful ugly white molar sign they have in the same corner!!! Cheesy!!!! Ugh!! Can't believe the city of Cambridge allowed that!

Note: there is a nice stretch going towards downtown (Galt area) that has nice plants, grasses, etc... all along the center median which I think looks quite nice.  If they could do more of that in other stretches, it would be an improvement (more trees too).


RE: General Retail News - GtwoK - 10-16-2018

The Petro Canada at Victoria and Edna — which closed down, and had fencing with "permanently closed" signage up — has just finished having all of it underground infrastructure (ie gas tanks) removed. The property is now completely empty.

Oddly enough, the "Permanently Closed" signage has now been swapped out for "Temporarily Closed — renovating and Reopening in 2019" signage.

Thats, uh, quite the renovation. Wonder why the change of heart?


RE: General Retail News - embe - 10-16-2018

(10-16-2018, 03:45 PM)GtwoK Wrote: The Petro Canada at Victoria and Edna — which closed down, and had fencing with "permanently closed" signage up — has just finished having all of it underground infrastructure (ie gas tanks) removed. The property is now completely empty.

Oddly enough, the "Permanently Closed" signage has now been swapped out for "Temporarily Closed — renovating and Reopening in 2019" signage.

Thats, uh, quite the renovation. Wonder why the change of heart?

Maybe the land was sold and one of the conditions was soil remediation?  (pure speculation on my part).  I wouldn't bother opening anything at that spot until the Victoria street bridge construction is done either.