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Does anyone know what Ford is doing in their office in one of the old RIM buildings off of Columbia? There is Ford signage on what I think used to be RIM 10. I saw a 2021 Ford Bronco driving down Columbia yesterday (it had Michigan license plates labelled "Manufacturer") - cool to see as the Bronco is not available to the public until next Spring.
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Sounds like the lot at the corner of Halifax drive and heritage drive has been bought and will be converted into a bunch of townhouses.
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There is construction fencing up on the corner of Fairway and King St. I see utility materials on site, is this just a staging area for a utility project underway nearby?
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Sign up for a new strip mall on the SE corner of Fisher Hallman and Westmount opening in 2021 (w/ CIBC). Tenants include Pita Factory and Dominos. Not sure what the status of the steakhouse that was announced last year.
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Looked like they were taking soil samples on the long vacant lot on king street next to the mandarin. for sale/for lease signs are also gone.
Would certainly be a nice vote of confidence in the city to see a long vacant plot of land be gobbled up in the midst of a pandemic.
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02-12-2021, 12:54 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-12-2021, 12:57 PM by ac3r.)
I believe that's zoned for offices so I wonder what would go in if someone has bought it. I'm curious to see how that particular neighbourhood developers once the LRT station is there, because there isn't a whole lot of land around the Sportsworld area.
Also...why do we still call it Sportsworld? The old Sportsworld is long gone and all that remains is a small sports arena and a small stretch of Maplegrove that for whatever reason suddenly becomes Sportsworld Drive for a couple hundred meters. It would have been nice to refer to the area by its old name - Pioneer Tower - and call the LRT station Pioneer Station, Pennsylvania Station or something like that...just something less corporate.
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I personally feel that Sportsworld Drive itself should be changed to Maple Grove Road. Its a major road thats such a short stub.
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I kind of like weird historic relics like this. In another 100 years, someone's going to ask why in the world this stub of a street is called Sportworld and one of the elders on the forum will recount a faint memory of this long-forgotten place.
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"Son, back in the day that's where we went to the arcade and spent 30 dollars at the arcade only to win enough tickets to trade for a plastic Halloween spider ring and 5 Pogs."