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Old Posted Sep 13, 2017, 7:21 PM
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As someone who frequents Goodlife Fitness at the Golden Mile, I question where people will be parking for any new shops opening up in the old Extra Foods spot.
There are generally 0-5% of the spots left around 5pm, as Superstore and Goodlife are busy. It's going to be a problem.
     
     
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Old Posted Sep 14, 2017, 2:39 AM
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There are generally 0-5% of the spots left around 5pm, as Superstore and Goodlife are busy. It's going to be a problem.
If the OneREIT brochure can be believed, there will be roughly additional 40 stalls available between the old Extra & Albert St, and parking along the north face of the old Extra (30 stalls) once the demolition is finished.

I say "if it can be believed" because the aerial photo render of the mall after renovations has the Broken Rack in the mall - not jutting out the back, as it now does. It appears to occupy space that (I believe) GoodLife is in. But when you go to the floorplan on page 2, Broken Rack is clearly still jutting out the back towards Parliament.
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Old Posted Sep 14, 2017, 2:47 PM
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If the OneREIT brochure can be believed, there will be roughly additional 40 stalls available between the old Extra & Albert St, and parking along the north face of the old Extra (30 stalls) once the demolition is finished.
Yeah it appears they're going to remove the old sidewalk/landing of the Extra Foods and make the north building profile flush with the Goodlife & defunct Ardene, which would open up all that space for parking. I really hope they include signage saying "Parking for Dollarama only" or "Parking for Fatburger only" because people going to Goodlife are going to eat up those spots very quickly.
     
     
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Old Posted Sep 14, 2017, 2:54 PM
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Also, there's TONS of parking around the Rack at 5pm. Goodlife patrons may need to start realizing that the front lot is for Superstore/businesses and not for them. The walk from the Rack doors through the mall to the interior Goodlife door is a very short one and is a god-send on those -40 days of winter. I'm surprised more people haven't started doing this yet.
     
     
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Old Posted Sep 15, 2017, 7:59 PM
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You have to realize we are talking about humans here. Its not going to happen. Especially on leg days
Haha, all is forgiven on leg day.
     
     
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Old Posted Sep 19, 2017, 1:22 PM
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Soutland Mall

I searched to see if this had been mentioned, but I don't see it...sorry if I just missed it.

What is going up in the north-west corner of the Southland Mall parking lot beside CIBC?

I hope it's not another restaurant I hear rumours that Mr. Mikes in the east is likely not going to make it, and that the new Famoso up on Rochdale is also suffering. I think we may have hit max capacity.
     
     
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Old Posted Sep 19, 2017, 1:26 PM
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I searched to see if this had been mentioned, but I don't see it...sorry if I just missed it.

What is going up in the north-west corner of the Southland Mall parking lot beside CIBC?
It's Sobey's liquor.
     
     
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Old Posted Sep 19, 2017, 2:55 PM
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It's Sobey's liquor.
Oh that's boring Thanks!
     
     
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Old Posted Sep 19, 2017, 2:57 PM
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I searched to see if this had been mentioned, but I don't see it...sorry if I just missed it.

What is going up in the north-west corner of the Southland Mall parking lot beside CIBC?

I hope it's not another restaurant I hear rumours that Mr. Mikes in the east is likely not going to make it, and that the new Famoso up on Rochdale is also suffering. I think we may have hit max capacity.
On the Regina Pubs and Restaurants thread there is a lengthy discussion about the triple whammy of PST, .04 and economic downturn that has hit this sector.
     
     
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Old Posted Sep 19, 2017, 4:51 PM
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I hope it's not another restaurant I hear rumours that Mr. Mikes in the east is likely not going to make it
Mr Mike's East is very poorly managed. Staff from the HL store have been predicting its demise for months. It's nothing like that HL one.
     
     
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Old Posted Sep 21, 2017, 7:25 PM
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News out of the St. Chad's/Canterbury Park development. Alair homes (a partner in the redevelopment of the school/church side of the building, along with Collab Construction) is applying to the city and heritage board to build their corporate head office on this piece of open land on the property.
     
     
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Old Posted Sep 21, 2017, 10:12 PM
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Even Calgary & Edmonton are maaaaaasive longshots.

Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver are the only real contenders. Ottawa might get a glance because of its large pool of IT professionals, high tech firms, and proximity to Waterloo.
I guess I was wrong - sounds like Calgary is a strong contender for Amazon's HQ2...


Sorry Toronto, Calgary and Denver seen in horse race for Amazon HQ
Calgary offers the right labour pool, a high quality of life and a willingness to pay to play in bid for the tech giant's new headquarters

The NY Times analysis "Dear Amazon, We Picked Your New Headquarters for You" didn't include any Canadian cities. Not because the NYT rules Canada out... simply because they chose not to make the effort to find the data necessary for their analysis This analysis essentially looked at the Canadian data the NYT was too lazy to dig up.

Sounds like any Canadian location is a long shot, though.
"Odds are it won’t come down to Calgary vs. Toronto, though, because moving to Canada doesn’t seem to be in Bezos’ best interests: the company would be opening itself up to a 15 percent foreign buyer’s tax, amid a host of other legal and regulatory challenges associated with being a bi-national firm. Locating up north might also be a bad move for a company sparring with US lawmakers, and emphasizing its identity as an American brand."
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Regina's first and only standalone Starbucks location will be open to the public on Saturday.

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Old Posted Sep 22, 2017, 1:26 AM
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Regina's first and only standalone Starbucks location will be open to the public on Saturday.

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What kind of shoddy ass reporting is that? The article literally disproves the headline.
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This will be Love’s second Starbucks location in the city.
     
     
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Old Posted Sep 22, 2017, 1:28 AM
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News out of the St. Chad's/Canterbury Park development. Alair homes (a partner in the redevelopment of the school/church side of the building, along with Collab Construction) is applying to the city and heritage board to build their corporate head office on this piece of open land on the property.
Are you sure they're planning to build there and not in side the old church? There has been a large unused space for sale in there for years.
     
     
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Old Posted Sep 22, 2017, 1:53 AM
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What kind of shoddy ass reporting is that? The article literally disproves the headline.
Taking the benefit of the doubt, maybe they mean not really attached to anything else? His other one is inside a commercial complex, while the rest in the city are attached to other businesses (Chapters) or run by other businesses (Double Tree & Safeway)

But yes... The Leader Post isn't exactly a shining example of journalism. I once called out one of their lead reporters on twitter regarding misleading information/a lack of proper analysis/knowledge on something they were reporting about... They were so offended that they blocked me.
     
     
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Old Posted Sep 22, 2017, 1:57 AM
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Taking the benefit of the doubt, maybe they mean not really attached to anything else? His other one is inside a commercial complex, while the rest in the city are attached to other businesses (Chapters) or run by other businesses (Double Tree & Safeway)

But yes... The Leader Post isn't exactly a shining example of journalism. I once called out one of their lead reporters on twitter regarding misleading information/a lack of proper analysis/knowledge on something they were reporting about... They were so offended that they blocked me.
Well being in the bottom of a 5 story building will never be standalone.

The setup is identical to his location at Regina Centre Crossing, a separate franchised location among other tenants.
     
     
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Old Posted Sep 22, 2017, 2:22 PM
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Are you sure they're planning to build there and not in side the old church? There has been a large unused space for sale in there for years.
Yeah, it's definitely a new build inside that dirt space. The plans were provided to the condo board of the attached condo development by Alair Homes for review.
     
     
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Taking the benefit of the doubt, maybe they mean not really attached to anything else? His other one is inside a commercial complex, while the rest in the city are attached to other businesses (Chapters) or run by other businesses (Double Tree & Safeway)
If I'm not mistaken, every other Starbucks doesn't actually have it's own employees, but rather piggybacks off another business. Due to archaic union regulations in the city, Starbucks hasn't opened a Starbucks with Starbucks employees. This new one will be the first that employs it's own staff.
     
     
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If I'm not mistaken, every other Starbucks doesn't actually have it's own employees, but rather piggybacks off another business. Due to archaic union regulations in the city, Starbucks hasn't opened a Starbucks with Starbucks employees. This new one will be the first that employs it's own staff.
...but still not Starbucks employees unlike every other location in Canada.
     
     
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