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Old Posted Feb 1, 2013, 10:45 PM
JamieDavid Exchange JamieDavid Exchange is offline
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Originally Posted by wags_in_the_peg View Post
true but those are what..3-5 years from being built then occupied? what came forst, chicken or egg? find me a retailer that can build now and wait that long for enough shoppers to come around.
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Originally Posted by JamieDavid Exchange View Post
I see your point, but I must argue the fact that Zellers grocery is closing in March, all the residents on Broadway and the Fort Gary can easily still catch either the 1 or 2 Spirit bus and grocery shop at the location we are talking about. If you think about it, there is really not much residential around the Bay building except what's north of PP and it supported a grocery tenant for numerous of years. If a grocery tenant went on Portage and Fort, you'd have all the same customers Zellers had plus the exchange residents and all the business people who work at the 5 towers at P&M picking up a few things before heading home, not to mention the new Avenue apartments and soon to be Glasshouse.
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Originally Posted by 1ajs View Post
imagin that a grocery store right off portage and main kool.

need no remind people theres 60 apartments right across the st theres the exchange not far away
the other projects mentioned... other stuff coming online and and it has onsite parking....

Are you agreeing with my point 1ajs?, or were you being sarcastic? LOL. Kinda hard figuring it out over text.