Looks like we could
finally see the lands at the NW corner of Fanshawe Park and Highbury developed soon as another mega shopping plaza. For at least the past decade (possibly longer), there has been some sort of a "coming soon" sign on the property from several different developers over the years. Westdell now owns the land, and they put their own "Coming soon" sign I would say within the last year, and they recently put up another new sign.
I contacted planning staff a while ago, asking if an application has already been submitted for this site, and apparently council already granted the zoning change many many years ago, so there will be no more public notices posted, everything else will be administrative btwn the city and developer (unless Westdell chooses to use the land for something else).
So on the city's recent agenda for their Urban Design Peer Review Panel, this property was up for discussion for "Site Plan Consultation", which is always the next step after the zoning change.
https://london.ca/sites/default/files/2022-11/AODA%20Agenda_2022-11-16%20REVISED.pdf
Westdell is calling this Stoney Creek Commons
https://www.westdellcorp.com/project_post/stoney-creek-commons/
Here is the current site plan from their website. It could change since site plan consultation is occurring now
