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RE: The Junction - Square - 12-08-2020
Talking about this area, any one know what used to be here? Thank you.
https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.4427194,-80.47694,3a,43y,181.01h,86.73t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sxkLiy85x62Aq5_rA3JWqOw!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo3.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DxkLiy85x62Aq5_rA3JWqOw%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D240.1992%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656!5m2!1e4!1e1
RE: The Junction - tomh009 - 12-08-2020
(12-07-2020, 08:18 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(12-07-2020, 06:01 PM)panamaniac Wrote: In the normal world,yes, but the Kitchener core has such a long history of landowners sitting on their properties that I’ll hold off getting too excited until we see something specific.
No, I won't hold my breath. But I'm cautiously optimistic: this land will have cost a bundle so the developer is probably not intending to sit on it for a decade or four.
Adding to my own post: this property is just over 1 ha (close to 3 acres) so the price tag would have surely been somewhere between $10M and $20M.
RE: The Junction - panamaniac - 12-08-2020
(12-08-2020, 05:56 AM)Square Wrote: Talking about this area, any one know what used to be here? Thank you.
https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.4427194,-80.47694,3a,43y,181.01h,86.73t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sxkLiy85x62Aq5_rA3JWqOw!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo3.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DxkLiy85x62Aq5_rA3JWqOw%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D240.1992%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656!5m2!1e4!1e1
I'm wracking my brain and I can't feature anything on that site, going back to the 1960s. Could it have been a parking lot for the old Doon Twines (Canada Cordage) plant? I seem to have a vague recollection of a lumber yard there, but I may be confusing it with the place that used to be across Charles, on the actual Junction site.
Maybe someone else has a better memory.
RE: The Junction - tomh009 - 12-08-2020
Riordan car rentals? But the current owner is MTD.
If/when MTD decides to move, that will be a huge opportunity for infill development.
RE: The Junction - panamaniac - 12-08-2020
(12-08-2020, 11:57 AM)tomh009 Wrote: Riordan car rentals? But the current owner is MTD.
If/when MTD decides to move, that will be a huge opportunity for infill development.
Yes, now that you mention it ... It's hard to remember - it has always been such a "nothing" bit of town (that stretch of Charles between Borden and Stirling).
Does MTD still manufacture at the Kitchener location? I used to associate them with lawnmowers, but I have no idea what they do nowadays.
RE: The Junction - Rainrider22 - 12-08-2020
It was a Beaver Lumber
RE: The Junction - sevenman - 12-08-2020
(12-08-2020, 05:56 AM)Square Wrote: Talking about this area, any one know what used to be here? Thank you.
https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.4427194,-80.47694,3a,43y,181.01h,86.73t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sxkLiy85x62Aq5_rA3JWqOw!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo3.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DxkLiy85x62Aq5_rA3JWqOw%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D240.1992%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656!5m2!1e4!1e1
I remember a truck rental location there, can't remember which dealer. I don't remember a Beaver Lumber but I do remember the Copp's Buildall across the street.
RE: The Junction - Rainrider22 - 12-08-2020
That spot had a Carter Truck rental at one time. Before that, I cant remember
RE: The Junction - tomh009 - 12-08-2020
(12-08-2020, 01:41 PM)sevenman Wrote:(12-08-2020, 05:56 AM)Square Wrote: Talking about this area, any one know what used to be here? Thank you.
https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.4427194,-80.47694,3a,43y,181.01h,86.73t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sxkLiy85x62Aq5_rA3JWqOw!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo3.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DxkLiy85x62Aq5_rA3JWqOw%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D240.1992%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656!5m2!1e4!1e1
I remember a truck rental location there, can't remember which dealer. I don't remember a Beaver Lumber but I do remember the Copp's Buildall across the street.
Yeah, Copp's Buildall!
See page 19:
https://digitalshift-assets.sfo2.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/pw/148a697b-f1c9-4ec0-9b3c-fdf0cf688d4e/f-83febcfb-240d-4636-906c-126cca819e7e/1975%20London%20El%20Morocco%20Majors%20Program.pdf
RE: The Junction - sevenman - 12-10-2020
(12-08-2020, 03:05 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(12-08-2020, 01:41 PM)sevenman Wrote: I remember a truck rental location there, can't remember which dealer. I don't remember a Beaver Lumber but I do remember the Copp's Buildall across the street.
Yeah, Copp's Buildall!
See page 19:
https://digitalshift-assets.sfo2.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/pw/148a697b-f1c9-4ec0-9b3c-fdf0cf688d4e/f-83febcfb-240d-4636-906c-126cca819e7e/1975%20London%20El%20Morocco%20Majors%20Program.pdf
Nice work Tom, 1975! Where did you dig that up from?
Ironically, I go through the program and one of the players in there from London is somebody that worked for a local wholesaler that I did business with. This program is from 15 years before I met him!
Good to see some of those old names in there. Ponderosa, Ali Baba, Mother's...
Thx Tom
RE: The Junction - tomh009 - 12-10-2020
It's amazing what Mr Google can dig up once you offer him the right kind of bait!
RE: The Junction - KaiserWilhelmsBust - 07-09-2022
The developer doing Park/Vic bought this from Perimeter for $15,000,000
RE: The Junction - Spokes - 07-10-2022
Just do that project here away from the neighborhood association 🤣
RE: The Junction - ijmorlan - 07-10-2022
(07-10-2022, 06:32 AM)Spokes Wrote: Just do that project here away from the neighborhood association 🤣
And then slide it in place overnight, like one of those rapid bridge replacements!
RE: The Junction - Spokes - 07-11-2022
Works for me!