07-02-2019, 08:15 PM
(06-28-2019, 05:50 PM)KevinL Wrote: I can't see GRR lasting 10 years at that location - land that LRT-adjacent will be too valuable. Hopefully they find new digs at a favourable location.
They are apparently building a bouldering location near the University of Waterloo. They are quite good at building climbing structures these days.
I have, in the past, strongly recommended to them that they buy out the land where they're located, but I guess that real estate speculation is not in their skillset (as perhaps it shouldn't be). There were quite a few Toronto climbing gyms that got bulldozed by condos about 5-10 years ago.
They'll be able to build another location somewhere if they can find it, but there's a good chance that it'll be worse than the current location. Climbing gyms usually are in pretty out of the way locations, though there has been some change in that recently, as gym admission prices go up. Toronto and Boston certainly have some new centrally located gyms.