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The Glove Box | 6 fl | U/C
Thanks for sharing the other businesses along the Uptown strip. I stand corrected, that at least in Uptown, there are a variety of shops, but there are still some empty spaces that have remained empty for a longer period of time. It will be interesting to see if Kitchener manages the same thing in their new builds.
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(04-12-2022, 10:11 AM)ac3r Wrote: I wonder what kind of shops will move in there. Seems like half the time it's just restaurants (which is fine) but little else moves in downtown Kitchener. Very few or outright no clothing stores, shoe shoes, art stores, entertainment places, unique shops, computer stores, gift stores, hobby stores etc. You can take 3-4 blocks of any generic neighbourhood in the Toronto core and find more interesting stuff there than all of our downtown. Here it's usually just restaurants, banks, realtors, weed shops and other generic stuff. There's still very little to bring people from the suburbs downtown unless they're eating out or going to a one off event at like...a bar or to watch a band.

Big clothing stores need big space and lots of customers. I don't think we're there yet.

But we do have yoga clothing in DTK. Used clothing. T-shirts. Comic books. Used books. Used records. Used videos. Bicycles. Army surplus. Shoes. Household goods. A wide variety of ethnic grocers. An urban grocer. An organic grocer. A greengrocer. Flowers. Baked goods. Skin care/cosmetics. Jewelry.

Although we do want and need more, it's not nothing.
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Another factor is the per square foot rent. Are the rents in these new buildings significantly different than the commercial rents elsewhere?
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