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Originally Posted by Sheepish
Not sure why discussions about Gimli are here, other than it is a lesson to be learned about how NOT to develop a street. And two respond to CB, there have certainly been more than 2 builds east of HWY9 in Gimli over the past 25 years. Along Center itself, you have the LC, Credit Union, Lighthouse, TimHortons and B& B (which used to be a Drs office). There are 2 Condos and an Apartment along First. The Co-op store Red Apple, Chicken Chef (which used to include the famous Central Bakery/Cafe) and Taylor Pharmacy may predate (not certain)...but along with LC, Tim's and Credit Union, all have ugly parking lots in front. The Lesson...if you want an interesting, active, walkable street, put the damned parking in the back!! Whether in Gimli or Winnipeg.
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Again your lack of knowledge of the subject is showing clear as day.
In the past 25 years east of Centre there are three new condo buildings, one of them replaced a hotel on First Ave and one is within the residential area.
There is a new build Liquor Mart that probably goes back 10+ years now.
The Credit Union is a new build, which predates the Bears on Broadway in 2006 (17 years ago).
There is the timeshare expansion on the Lakeview hotel which also goes back a similar timeframe.
Technically the Thai Plaza is a new build too but it is effectively an in place replacement of the former building built by insurance when the former foundation was destroyed.
I did forget the Beachview Professional Centre which attempts to have a pedestrian friendly presence. Best guess is that one is 20+ years old.
Soon there will be a replacement for Kris' and a new DQ.
The other ones if you really want to get deep and be technical about it is there is a new fire hall and coast guard building.
And before someone mentions it the new RCMP building is west of HWY 9.
That's it. Hard stop.
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The Tim's you cite as "new" along with Taylor Pharmacy, same owner, goes back more than 25 years with its parking lot. The Pharmacy used to be more on the corner where Tims is now with the LC next door. When the LC relocated the pharmacy expanded and added the Tims.
The Red Apple and its parking lot moved in to the space vacated by the Sobeys when they relocated west of HWY 9 and outside of the core area of the town, same with the Rona next door.
Chicken Chef and its parking lot, as you mention, took over a long established building and goes back over 25 years.
Co-op is essentially a banner change on the former food store (Super A) similar to how Home Hardware is just a name change on the hardware store (TruValue).
Inn on Centre is actually a boutique hotel and not a B&B as you claim and it took over an existing building. Fairly certain it was actually a dentist office but I had never been.
The LightHouse Mall also goes back well over 25 years. I have no clue on that one but know it was well established before I started going there despite how modern looking it seems.
And Buskers, which you didn't mention, took over the former Gimli Water Haus location.
If you want to go see Gimli from more than 7 years ago just hit up Street View. You can easily date it as Circle K is still running the former Macs branding which was retired in 2017.
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If you look along First where the PCH is built it is all commercial built up to the sidewalk. With forward movement happening again such as the redevelopment of Whitecaps into Interlake Brewing and the construction of the DQ on the former Shell location there is hope more will follow. I used to question how a Thai restaurant could succeed there yet it did despite the odds. That made be think could it truly be that long before an Indian or sushi place pops up, given there would be space available for them. Sure enough this summer someone is testing the marking for Indian food with a pop up stall on the boardwalk. But building a PCH in one of the most prime areas for such future developments chokes out future opportunities like that.