Saskatoon | Baydo Towers | ??m - ??m | 25-25 Floors | U/C

[roryn1]

Completely agree with your comments Roquentin. As I live in this block, we crave some useful retail. I actually forget that my building has retail as they are two very quiet companies - orthodontist and a land surveyor (both still full of people during covid). Across from us within our neighbouring condos is a Chiropractor, medicine shop drug store, small grocer (with lots of selection!), one of the best Massages and facial therapist places, Small physical therapist, another small grocer, and two barber locations. All of that in the current 5 neighbouring buildings within a one block radius!

My personal asks for retail in this area?

1. A family doctor! We have very few family doctors downtown.
2. A school in walking distance!
3. A subway or equivalent not in Circle K - as it is borderline dangerous visiting either Circle K or 7/11 at many times of the day and night (walking or driving). The new Prairie donair shop on 25th and 2nd may have solved this ask of me though ha.
4. A nice restaurant would be nice - but not a requirement as the walk to 2nd ave’s a bountiful restaurants is a nice experience in itself - for the 4 months we can enjoy walking there.
5. A modern fitness - yes I know we have YMCA and YWCA downtown, but we lack a modern fitness studio like F45 or one of the latest fitness places that do group classes that focuses on group classes like HIIT. There’s Rise Strength Lab in the north end, but walking distance wise we have nada. Young people about to live in Baydo Tower want a walkable modern franchised group workout place!
6. A new private liquor store (the downtown public one will be closed soon with construction of the new library AND IT is tiny to start. Come on where’s our new downtown private liquor store?)

Notice how I didn’t put grocery store? Grocery delivery is becoming such a great thing that most downtowners - even older folks, will soon all be getting their groceries delivered. This is already the now situation in larger cities as psf space for a large grocer with plentiful selection is hard to do. Our current small grocers near 5th and 25th offer fruits and veggies.