Dallas Fort Worth has a office vacancy rate of 16% with a modest positive absorption. Doesn't sound that great from our perspective. Well, for America, it's good enough to have an office boom with over 10 million square feet under construction.
The one that I'll never forget is the $2.4 billion dollar Revel casino resort that sold 4 years later for $80 million. And we consider the Scarborough RT that has served its needs for 30 years a massive waste to replacement with something greaterr
Dallas Fort Worth has a office vacancy rate of 16% with a modest positive absorption. Doesn't sound that great from our perspective. Well, for America, it's good enough to have an office boom with over 10 million square feet under construction.
The one that I'll never forget is the $2.4 billion dollar Revel casino resort that sold 4 years later for $80 million.
I always knew you and I could get along, Whipper...
Are you serious? Just look at their level of abandonment compared to ours. They have hundreds of office complexes sitting completely shutted that can be purchased for a song and are still building more.
The tallest building in Buffalo (One Seneca Tower) has been vacant for years and was on the verge of demolition before someone finally came forward and bought it for a fraction of what it should be worth.
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I don't study American Real estate, and was unaware of these boondoggles. However, I guess I should have expected a seriously pompous and arrogant reply. Thank you, thank you very much.
There are also somethings that you should be aware of especially as a veteran poster of SSP. Others may not be as candid with their replies but, I guarantee you they are thinking it.
I just finished reading a book about Eaton's, published a couple of years ago: Eaton's: The Trans-Canada Store.
Very interesting read, and it lists the opening date of almost every single location across Canada including the discount Horizon locations (basically their answer to Kresge's K-Mart or HBC's Zellers).
One thing I found interesting is how haphazard their locations were in the earlier years. While Toronto had two stores (Queen Street and College Street), and some smaller cities such as Chatham and North Bay had a smaller format store, London did not have a store until 1961, Ottawa didn't have a store between 1968 and 1973, and Kingston never had one.
In the end, I remember Eaton's having three locations in London: downtown at Wellington Square (later Galleria), Westmount Mall, and Masonville Place. It seems to me in the later years they made a lame attempt to be hip and cool, and had juice bars in some stores. The Galleria store, as I recall, had been reduced from five stories to two in 1997, with the lower floor becoming a Goodlife Fitness club and the upper two stories being closed off.
Tower U/C on one corner is 194 m - E Condo
Next Corner is 2121 Yonge - 191 m.
Also UC underground LRT/subway Interchange station for the Crosstown Line
There is another Japanese retailer across the street "Muji" always seems pretty packed. And Dundas going west from Yonge, always seems to have some new Japanese shop/restaurant/cafe with huge line ups all the time. I'm thinking about this Uncle Tetsu/Angel Cafe Shops and Japanese Noodle joints. The sidewalk going west on Dundas is not really wide enough to manage the line-ups and pedestrian traffic.
It always amazes me that so many people have so little happening in their lives that they line up, sometimes for hours, to go into a new shop (that one assumes is going to be there for some time to come). I don't understand the mentality at all.
It's kind of neat how that part of Dundas is becoming a Japanese-themed area. It really adds to the multicultural fabric in Toronto.
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It always amazes me that so many people have so little happening in their lives that they line up, sometimes for hours, to go into a new shop (that one assumes is going to be there for some time to come). I don't understand the mentality at all.
Well, one thing that it is is a tremendous marketing achievement for retailers. You're lining up to spend *your* money in *their* store.
It's kind of neat how that part of Dundas is becoming a Japanese-themed area. It really adds to the multicultural fabric in Toronto.
I believe I noticed that stretch being dubbed 'Tiny Tokyo' a few months back. It's a catchy moniker imo.
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It always amazes me that so many people have so little happening in their lives that they line up, sometimes for hours, to go into a new shop (that one assumes is going to be there for some time to come). I don't understand the mentality at all.
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