Rideau Centre Expansion | Completed - Page 44

drawarc · #**861** Posted **Oct 17, 2014, 8:08 PM**

Wonder where EATON letters went. Landfill?

eternallyme · #**862** Posted **Oct 17, 2014, 8:49 PM**

Curious, what is going in the old food court?

mac_junkie1 · #**863** Posted **Oct 17, 2014, 9:20 PM**

old foodcourt will have a brand new shoppers drug mart. where shoppers is now, the wall will open into the new addition and be an h&m

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Originally Posted by eternallyme

Curious, what is going in the old food court?

mac_junkie1 · #**864** Posted **Oct 17, 2014, 9:24 PM**

Can't wait to see my building back on the corner

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Originally Posted by OTSkyline

Wow, nice to see it coming along! When is this section due to be completed and open again? I see they are around 3 stories up right now, renders suggest 3-5.

Will be much of an improvement over the status quo that was the abandoned building and surface parking lot.

Still drooling over this....

Sorry for the size, don't know how to make it smaller

J.OT13 · #**865** Posted **Oct 18, 2014, 4:27 PM**

Could have kept the "E.A.T.O.N." letters for the National Museum of defunct department stores.

1overcosc · #**866** Posted **Oct 20, 2014, 4:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by mac_junkie1

old foodcourt will have a brand new shoppers drug mart. where shoppers is now, the wall will open into the new addition and be an h&m

Plus a subway entrance.

MoreTrains · #**867** Posted **Oct 20, 2014, 5:03 PM**

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Originally Posted by Kitchissippi

They've also disposed of the "EATON" letters that were left on the roof, still seen on Google maps

I just went on Google Maps, and I do not see these proverbial letters! I am dissappointed.

wingman · #**868** Posted **Oct 20, 2014, 5:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by MoreTrains

I just went on Google Maps, and I do not see these proverbial letters! I am dissappointed.

If you go Birds Eye on Bing you will see them there.

rocketphish · #**869** Posted **Oct 20, 2014, 5:17 PM**

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Originally Posted by wingman

If you go Birds Eye on Bing you will see them there.

http://binged.it/1FrFrkE

gjhall · #**870** Posted **Oct 26, 2014, 12:46 AM**

The new larger Harry Rosen store has opened, including a separate shop store

eternallyme · #**871** Posted **Oct 26, 2014, 12:52 AM**

I noticed the new Birks open, with a separate(?) Cartier store inside it.

kevinbottawa · #**872** Posted **Oct 26, 2014, 3:01 AM**

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Originally Posted by gjhall

The new larger Harry Rosen store has opened, including a separate shop store

That's ahead of schedule I think. Wasn't it supposed to open in November?

citydwlr · #**873** Posted **Oct 26, 2014, 3:27 AM**

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Originally Posted by kevinbottawa

That's ahead of schedule I think. Wasn't it supposed to open in November?

Yeah, I think you're right. The Rideau Centre Website says it was to open in November.

From Twitter:

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A Harry Rosen FIRST! Introducing The Shoe Shop - our first dedicated shoe store for men now open @RideauCentre.

Pretty cool that we got the Shoe Shop first compared to the Toronto locations!

kevinbottawa · #**874** Posted **Nov 3, 2014, 6:28 PM**

Taken this past weekend.

OTSkyline · #**875** Posted **Nov 4, 2014, 2:41 PM**

This will do wonders for Rideau Street.. That part was always so ugly, dirty and sketchy. With a revitalized and modernized exterior, and hopefully a nice, clean, wide sidewalk, this can become a ncie place to walk and shop around.

Now hopefully we can clean up and do the same on the opposite of the street where the McDonald, crowded bus-stop shelter, Gangster hangout, pee stained sidewalk is.

Kitchissippi · #**876** Posted **Nov 4, 2014, 3:37 PM**

I think when the LRT opens and most of the buses are off Rideau is when we'll really see a dramatic change in the street's ambience. Bus malls have a tendency of attracting vagrants and loiterers, as there are already a lot of people standing around waiting for a bus and they can just blend in with the crowd. Without the rows of bus shelters, the pedestrian traffic should also be more fluid.

1overcosc · #**877** Posted **Nov 4, 2014, 4:02 PM**

Is the plan to move the local buses to the Mackenzie King bridge?

Beedok · #**878** Posted **Nov 4, 2014, 4:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by Kitchissippi

I think when the LRT opens and most of the buses are off Rideau is when we'll really see a dramatic change in the street's ambience. Bus malls have a tendency of attracting vagrants and loiterers, as there are already a lot of people standing around waiting for a bus and they can just blend in with the crowd. Without the rows of bus shelters, the pedestrian traffic should also be more fluid.

There'll probably still be loads of buses at both MacKenzie King and Rideau. The Confederation line won't eliminate all the local buses. There's plenty that of buses that will probably still go by.

Plus you'll probably still see plenty of folks loitering around, that's more to do with the nature of it being the city's core and a fair amount of low income housing near by.

hwy418 · #**879** Posted **Nov 4, 2014, 4:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by 1overcosc

Is the plan to move the local buses to the Mackenzie King bridge?

I believe it is since the Rideau Centre wants to maintain the pedestrian traffic between Mackenzie King and Rideau. This was a major issue for them during the N-S LRT Study which would have shifted most of the transit to the Mackenzie King Bridge.

1overcosc · #**880** Posted **Nov 4, 2014, 4:42 PM**

So I presume that would mean routes like the 1, 7, 5, 14, etc. turning left on Waller, right on the Mackenzie King bridge then using the Albert/Slater corridor? Would be a faster and more efficient route for them. Under that scenario the STO would be the only users of the Rideau-Wellington corridor.