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Is there anything comparable to this in the GTA? It seems truly massive and I wonder how often these things completely change by the time they're actually built...
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I am guessing this would take a long, long time to build. For sure retired and one foot in the grave by the time it's complete.
That loss of retail though, where does it go?
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Some retail would go in the ground floor units of the new buildings; others would go elsewhere, perhaps along Hespeler Road.
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The end of the Shopping Centre furthest from Hespeler Rd is already a zombie plaza. The old Rona and the block with Bed Bath and Beyond are empty/half empty. It’s perfect that the plan starts the development from that end. Additionally there is brand new residential backing onto that part of the shopping centre.
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With news about a new massive MZO in Mississauga, I decided to quickly search online for anything about this project and got an impressive amount of silence on it.
Since SmartCentres is a pretty big operation, it seems strange that they expected to start in 2021 and absolutely nothing has happened or been announced?
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They own the property and have the MZO already, so given the current post-pandemic economic disaster we're now in they're probably not looking to rush things.
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I have never heard the term "uptown cambridge" before, is that new, or am I just out of the loop?