Retail News - Page 21

matt602 · #1 Posted **Mar 5, 2009, 2:23 AM**

Main/Locke on the Northeast corner.

flar · #2 Posted **Mar 5, 2009, 3:20 AM**

Main Desserts has been gone for a while.

MsMe · #3 Posted **Mar 13, 2009, 3:57 PM**

While driving on Parkdale North yesterday I saw Speedy Garage closed and boarded up.

FairHamilton · #4 Posted **Mar 13, 2009, 4:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by MsMe

While driving on Parkdale North yesterday I saw Speedy Garage closed and boarded up.

Their Corporate parent went bankrupt (again) at the end of 2007, http://www.thespec.com/article/281508

Probably part of their ongoing re-organization.

FairHamilton · #5 Posted **Mar 13, 2009, 4:31 PM**

Saw The Derby had construction fence (blue rental fence) up around it the other week. Perhaps some demolition and construction will start this spring.

MsMe · #6 Posted **Mar 13, 2009, 7:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by FairHamilton

Saw The Derby had construction fence (blue rental fence) up around it the other week. Perhaps some demolition and construction will start this spring.

I was just going to post this but you beat me to it. Goodbye old Derby.

markbarbera · #7 Posted **Mar 15, 2009, 2:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by FairHamilton

Saw The Derby had construction fence (blue rental fence) up around it the other week. Perhaps some demolition and construction will start this spring.

This is to be Rexall's new home for Herbie's. Not sure whether it'll remain a Herbies or take on the PharmaPlus format in its new home.

MsMe · #8 Posted **Mar 13, 2009, 7:25 PM**

The Speedy on Parkdale was closed for a while, then re-opened but wasn't open very long though. Sad seeing the city become a ghost town...again like other recessions.

matt602 · #9 Posted **Mar 13, 2009, 8:36 PM**

Yah, the sign for the Speedy along Wentworth was also taken down (it was a giant sign sitting on the side of a building facing East) but I don't think the garage closed yet.

Also there's demolition equipment at the Derby since yesterday or they day before. Any day now...

FairHamilton · #10 Posted **Mar 15, 2009, 1:30 AM**

Hobo Hardware is also going out of business. Closed today with sign of an auction on March 28th.

MsMe · #11 Posted **Mar 15, 2009, 5:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by FairHamilton

Hobo Hardware is also going out of business. Closed today with sign of an auction on March 28th.

Where is this located?

FairHamilton · #12 Posted **Mar 15, 2009, 7:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by MsMe

Where is this located?

Victoria & Shaw.

matt602 · #13 Posted **Mar 15, 2009, 5:04 AM**

Wow, that really sucks. I never went there but the old warehouse they're in is absolutely gorgeous.

MsMe · #14 Posted **Mar 15, 2009, 4:40 PM**

I wonder if Herbies will close then.

flar · #15 Posted **Mar 15, 2009, 5:05 PM**

Too bad about Hobo Hardware. When I was photographing the Keith area, I thought to myself, "it's great that this old factory has a tenant." Hopefully somebody finds something to do with the building, it's a real beauty.

flar · #16 Posted **Mar 15, 2009, 5:14 PM**

Just behind General Hospital on Victoria Ave.

MsMe · #17 Posted **Mar 15, 2009, 5:18 PM**

Thanks Flar.

It is a nice building. Obviously from the Queen Victoria days from the style.
Let's hope it doesn't get run down in time.

MsMe · #18 Posted **Mar 15, 2009, 7:14 PM**

Fair size building. Anyone know what was there when it first opened?

hmagazine · #19 Posted **Mar 15, 2009, 8:46 PM**

I believe the Cataract Power Company - someone correct me here....possibly a forerunner to Hamilton Hydro?

MsMe · #20 Posted **Mar 23, 2009, 3:45 PM**

Pharmacy planned for Derby Tavern site

March 23, 2009
The Hamilton Spectator
(Mar 23, 2009)
When demolition crews are finished tearing down the old Derby Tavern, plans for a Pharma Plus will go ahead.

The tavern on Queenston Road just east of the traffic circle has been a well-known watering hole and hotel in the east end for many years.

"We received a permit application at the end of January of this year to construct a 'shell' for a future pharmacy on this site," Debbie Spence, communications for planning and economic development, wrote in an e-mail. She had no details on timelines.

In the 1920s, it was called the Derby House, a wagon stop for traffic on a rough road that led to Niagara. Its second owners turned it into a larger complex in 1954, adding rooms including a large lobby and dining room.

The Derby was a live country music hot spot in its heydey. It closed last year.

http://www.thespec.com/News/Local/article/535014