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Originally Posted by Loco101
That must be one of the last Costco locations that was originally a Price Club? Many of those Price Club warehouses that opened in the 1980s and 1990s were located out of the way a bit. They tended to be away from other retailers on purpose. Most locations built as Costco have tended to be among other retail stores and businesses. At least from my observations.
I got a Costco membership right around the turn of the millennium when one opened in Sudbury and have renewed every year.
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Back when this one opened, it was literally across the road from the city limits. It has the 401 on one side of it, and the main drag that runs into downtown London on the front side of it was the city limit at the time. It did have some commercial area around it, like a Leon's, Superstore grocery store and Towers (which became a Zellers). Kind of out of the way for the city itself, but handy because of being right at the main exit from the 401.
The other Costco on the other end of town, which was built at the same time as Sam's Club was coming in (the 2 literally had a race to be open first, each offering the contractors a bonus if they beat the other store, which was awesome for the companies working on both lol) was a big piece of open land in the middle of a dense residential area on one side and commercial on the other. It was already a traffic headache before lol.