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Originally Posted by Treesplease
I believe this "shopping centre" is primarily for retailers not for retail - ie HD and Lowes buyers would come here and pick the stuff that appears in their stores from an array of chinese companies. They already have something like this in Chicago called merchandise mart - one of the largest buildings in the US. Who the hell is going to fly to saskawhat vs. fly to chicago to buy stuff? this makes no sense - Saskatoon and Regina have crappy air service never mind dundurn. I would think the most important factor for a facility like this would be the ability of buyers to get in and out quick and back to where ever in NA they came from.....a difficult flight to Saskatoon followed by a one hour......taxi? to dundurn is not going to cut it.
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It is a weird proposal.
I don't know. Google Map estimates the travel time from the Saskatoon airport to Dundurn at 37 min. That is not bad. No one is going to be bothered by a half hour drive along a divided highway with light traffic when you compare it what is needed to get across Toronto, Chicago or Vancouver. I suspect if they are doing retail in addition to wholesale being outside of a major city helps keep the wholesale customers on board as they are not really a direct competitor.
I would expect the the selling feature of Dundurn is cheap land prices. Maybe having a large hotel/casino nearby helps, who knows. What I don't understand is if this is for real why not a community north of Saskatoon that would be closer to the airport.