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Originally Posted by SteelTown
Apparently, they are building a parking garage where the vacant Sears is located.
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Ah, yes. I missed the Public Record link.
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[Cadillac Fairview's] proposal is to demolish the existing structure which housed Sears, and to construct a new two storey anchor to the indoor mall, one restaurant addition attached to the shopping centre, two standalone restaurants in front of the new anchor, and two restaurants at the front of a two-storey 494 parking stall parkade structure.
The parkade will be connected to the mall by a pedestrian bridge, and the parkade’s two restaurants will feature rooftop patios.
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Hamilton Spectator, May 4 2018:
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Cadillac Fairview has submitted an application to the city's planning department that calls for a multimillion-dollar redevelopment of Cadillac Fairview Lime Ridge Mall, on Upper Wentworth, that includes 12 new buildings and nearly 200,000 square feet of new retail and commercial space.
The application was submitted on April 17.
According to the application, the former two-storey Sears department store on the north side of the mall will be torn down.
It will be replaced by more than 60,000 square feet of new retail space split between three units on two floors.
The plan also calls for five new restaurant buildings ranging in size from 6,000 to 7,500 square feet.
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This would create more onsite retail capacity and offer mall clientele more convenient access to parking, though the proposed parkade would be built atop existing surface parking and offset parking loss linked to the construction of the new two-storey building, so the net gain is a little muted.
First Ontario Centre occupies a footprint roughly 15K square meters (161K square feet), about the same size as the parking lot at the Mall Road Fortinos. (Or, if you prefer, the combined area of the former Sears and the space where the parkade has been proposed.)
ETA: I love that the CF spokesperson is named
Anna Ng.