London Development Rumour Thread - Page 8

jammer139 · #**141** Posted **Sep 23, 2021, 4:22 PM**

Looks like Foxwood Homes Developments have purchased a couple of homes around the old bank building on the SE corner of Adelaide and Oxford. Could they be looking at assembling a parcel for a future project?

jammer139 · #**142** Posted **Oct 1, 2021, 6:35 PM**

The NW corner of Dundas and Quebec St is up for sale. Hopefully someone buys it and the house immediately to the north to consolidate the properties. Could be potential site for a drug store and/or low rise apartment building. At one time it was a 7-Eleven.

jammer139 · #**143** Posted **Oct 10, 2021, 6:11 PM**

Interesting land assembly move by Southside Construction at NW corner of Adelaide and Oxford St. They have bought up both the plaza and the small building housing the laundry business for just under $11M. They already own the SW corner with the Shoppers and Timmies. The plaza building dates back to 1950 and has a rather large parking lot on the north side. Might we see a redevelopment in the future?

Djeffery · #**144** Posted **Oct 10, 2021, 7:45 PM**

That's interesting news. Palasad's owner (well, his family, not sure if it's just him now) have owned that plaza for decades. He also owns the real estate that the south Palasad is on, so keep an eye on whether it gets sold too. Wonder if he is looking to get out of that business and move on to something else or just wanted to liquidate the real estate holdings. They had just spent a bunch of money right before the pandemic, so I imagine that has put a serious cash crunch on.

Ryeguy01 · #**145** Posted **Oct 25, 2021, 12:46 AM**

Sometime this week our company will start erecting the steel for BOS Innovations on Discovery Drive. Also right across from us is Cardiff and looks like they poured the foundation to their new expansion. Steel should also be going up for that job soon.

Djeffery · #**146** Posted **Oct 25, 2021, 1:36 AM**

Cardiff is expanding already? I thought they barely just opened to begin with. Great to see all the work going on in those industrial parks over there. BOS coming to London is awesome, since we were used to seeing places heading to just outside London. Any idea what that really tall building is on Innovation? This pic was from a couple weeks ago.

Ryeguy01 · #**147** Posted **Oct 25, 2021, 1:41 AM**

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Cardiff is expanding already? I thought they barely just opened to begin with. Great to see all the work going on in those industrial parks over there. BOS coming to London is awesome, since we were used to seeing places heading to just outside London. Any idea what that really tall building is on Innovation? I think they have the outer walls on it now, but before the walls were going on, it was a really odd looking structure, like it was all scaffolding or something.

That place I believe is where they will be processing grasshoppers to protein and that giant blue structure is a freezer. Yes Cardiff is expanding already. I remember we redid the roof there last November since the company there before that put up the building messed up and then they were already talking about expanding.

Djeffery · #**148** Posted **Oct 25, 2021, 10:28 AM**

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That place I believe is where they will be processing grasshoppers to protein and that giant blue structure is a freezer. Yes Cardiff is expanding already. I remember we redid the roof there last November since the company there before that put up the building messed up and then they were already talking about expanding.

I was curious if that was them. The story a couple weeks ago mentioned the size of their building and this looks bigger, but it's tough to eyeball as well.

Ryeguy01 · #**149** Posted **Oct 25, 2021, 1:42 PM**

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I was curious if that was them. The story a couple weeks ago mentioned the size of their building and this looks bigger, but it's tough to eyeball as well.

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Jobs always get changed so I wouldn’t be surprised if they changed the height or size of the job. That happens a lot with industrial buildings.

ssiguy · #**150** Posted **Oct 25, 2021, 7:35 PM**

^^^ That is very true.

Often industrial buildings in tight markets are built larger than originally proposed and getting approval from the City is usually just a formality.

No one lives in these areas so there is never any flack from NIMBYs, the City gets more tax revenue, and additions are quite cheap and fast to build. Larger buildings naturally results in more people working in it which also saves the City money on more infrastructure that would be required if it was 2 separate buildings and makes transit more viable.

jammer139 · #**151** Posted **Nov 10, 2021, 4:27 PM**

Who thinks the NE corner of Oxford and Richmond would be a terrific site for redevelopment? No idea who currently owns the bank building and the ValuMart property but the site would be perfect for a complete redevelopment with 3 levels of public underground parking with a couple of commercial/retail levels for the first couple of floors and 3-4 levels of private parking for tenants to complete the podium base under a pair of 30+ floors of rental or condo unit towers. Could see a full service grocery store as the main ground floor tenant with restaurants and commercial tenants on the remainder of the 2nd floor. There appears to be some land assembly happening at Oxford and Adelaide and would be interesting to see if similar moves happen at the NE corner of Richmond and Oxford.

Ryeguy01 · #**152** Posted **Nov 10, 2021, 11:42 PM**

So most of the steel structure is up for the main building for BOS and also I noticed across the street at Cardiff, they also have a lot of the steel structure up. Seems like Innovation park is just buzzing with activity.

jammer139 · #**153** Posted **Nov 11, 2021, 1:46 PM**

Haven't seen any news of whether the Call the Office property was sold. Also not sure who owns the car detailing business to the west that had the steam line explosion in front. The parking lot surrounding these buildings assembled together would make a terrific location for a major redevelopment if a developer was looking for a site. Not sure London's big 4 (Old Oaks, Drewlo, York and Tricar) have any capacity left to take on something new now. GTA developers other then Medallion have not entered the London market as of yet which seems a little odd.

ssiguy · #**154** Posted **Nov 13, 2021, 9:24 PM**

I didn't know where to put this so..............Has there been any talk about widening Richmond Street sidewalks south of Queen?

Richmond Row is an extremely successful street by any metric but it stops at Dundas. It use to stop at Queen but the filling in of that gapping parking lot by Shoppers has made for a more continuous pedestrian realm to Dundas. Unfortunately the amount of foot traffic falls off greatly at Dundas which is a shame because the section south of it has some really nice architecture.

A widening of the sidewalks would allow far more restaurants and bars to develop and open the street up as well as connecting to the restaurants and shops along King to Talbot. In effect if would result in Richmond Row going from Oxford all the way down to York.

Maybe I am misinformed but the Downtown Loop will also get all the buses of Richmond which would mean the extension of the sidewalks would also be far less problematic but even if they aren't, it would still open up Richmond Row further south which also greatly help Dundas Place.

jammer139 · #**155** Posted **Nov 13, 2021, 9:34 PM**

Footings now in for business in the Sherwood Forest Mall parking lot. The pad north of the Tim Hortons is being built. No sign what business is planning to locate here.

Djeffery · #**156** Posted **Nov 14, 2021, 1:32 AM**

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Originally Posted by ssiguy

I didn't know where to put this so..............Has there been any talk about widening Richmond Street sidewalks south of Queen?

Richmond Row is an extremely successful street by any metric but it stops at Dundas. It use to stop at Queen but the filling in of that gapping parking lot by Shoppers has made for a more continuous pedestrian realm to Dundas. Unfortunately the amount of foot traffic falls off greatly at Dundas which is a shame because the section south of it has some really nice architecture.

A widening of the sidewalks would allow far more restaurants and bars to develop and open the street up as well as connecting to the restaurants and shops along King to Talbot. In effect if would result in Richmond Row going from Oxford all the way down to York.

Maybe I am misinformed but the Downtown Loop will also get all the buses of Richmond which would mean the extension of the sidewalks would also be far less problematic but even if they aren't, it would still open up Richmond Row further south which also greatly help Dundas Place.

Haven't heard anything at all about Richmond being narrowed, and I'm also unsure if the BRT loop is also going to remove regular transit buses from Rchmond. I think clogging the loop with regular buses will pose an obstacle for the BRT buses to provide "rapid" transit.

jammer139 · #**157** Posted **Jan 30, 2022, 8:17 PM**

Interested to see a for sale sign up on the SW corner of Sunningdale and Richmond. Draft plan approved highlighted on the sign. This corner was planned for a large big box multi store development. With York already making progress on the NW corner with their commercial development could they be a potential buyer? Or will Westdel or Southside buy it? Not sure who the current owner is.

MolsonExport · #**158** Posted **Jan 31, 2022, 5:56 PM**

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Footings now in for business in the Sherwood Forest Mall parking lot. The pad north of the Tim Hortons is being built. No sign what business is planning to locate here.

It is a Burger Thing.

jammer139 · #**159** Posted **Mar 2, 2022, 3:37 PM**

150 Dundas Street was just sold. This was in the news a number of years ago when Rygar Dev was trying to zone it for 25s building without apparently even owning it yet. No idea who 13CD Inc is or if they have any intentions of revisiting a redevelopment.

150 Dundas Street
type Commercial building
price $4,299,000
seller Zucchet Family Development Ltd.
buyer 13CD Inc.

ssiguy · #**160** Posted **Mar 2, 2022, 8:18 PM**

It's a pretty hefty price to pay for so it makes one think that the developer wouldn't have done it unless they had some real concrete plans to redevelop the site into something significant.