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Originally Posted by jammer139
Not sure this is a good location for a grocery store. Wasn't there a rumour that Metro was looking at Citi Place Galleria for a grocery store or at least one of their Urban Metro mini grocery stores? I would think that Citi Place would be a much better location then here.
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The chances of this development having a grocery store are zero mainly because both the developers and tenants wouldn't want them. Grocery stores are 24 hour operations as most of the shipping is done overnight. Tenants, understandable, don't want the noise of the trucks and their constant horning when reversing all night and developers know it as it makes the development less attractive to buyers/renters. This is why, even the densest of city centres, grocery stores at the base of condos are exceptionally rare.
The Galleria is a potential but even that is probably a no go. Even if they could manage to consolidate enough space in the mall to make it workable, it is not considered ideal by most grocers. Major grocery chains tend to prefer to buy their buildings/land and not to rent them. This is why many new grocery stores are stand alone buildings or part of a plaza where they can buy the property and then just pay monthly maintenance for upkeep etc..........much like a condo.
I think any new grocery store will be a filling of an empty parking lot that can be bought, has a large enough area to have a decent size store, easy access to roads and large enough loading zones, and have space for some parking which they would need less of in a downtown location.
I think one of the ideal locations would be the huge parking lot at Wellington/Waterloo on York Street which is up for sale. Such a location is more central as it would get shoppers not only from the core but SOHO & Old East as well as opposed to Wortley or Richmond Row which both already have access to a grocery stores.
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