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Originally Posted by Spr0ckets
Looking at that plan, it's a little weird how the smallest tower ended up with the largest (consolidated) podium retail space.
But then again, I suppose not too surprising given that SaveOn (now PriceSmart) was an integral anchor tenant of the original Station Square.
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Originally Posted by officedweller
WRT PriceSmart, it makes sense that the large footprint retail unit is on the site with only one tower, as there's less intrusion (by elevator cores, lobbies, etc.) into the contiguous space.
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It's only Site 2 / 3 that has two towers on one podium - the rest of the site is one tower per podium. I'm not surprised they'd want the grocery store fronting Kingsway instead of being further into the site as I'm sure they want to limit the number of cars in a 'pedestrian friendly' area.
I'm more surprised by the fact that they still only have two of the four restaurants in their 'restaurant row', and that the remaining podiums have so many small retail spots compared to what's open now. Their
latest pdf is here.
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