someMidTowner
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today, March 30/2013:
You might want to have another look at your calendar.
today, March 30/2013:
my time machine makes me proud... Thanks for noticing, I changed it back.
I heard LCBO just signed up to be a retailer in the building.
On a side note, with talks about Cineplex moving up to Empress Walk, and Riocan gutting the existing theatre floor (at Sheppard Centre) for "shops", it makes you think if they could turn that space into a T&T.LCBO... meh. There is already a well-stocked LCBO at Bayview Village, and the smaller sized LCBO at Empress Walk.
I still think the loss of T&T is a devastating loss to the commercial success of this development. The draw of T&T is almost immeasurable. Every T&T I've been to has always busy, so much so that many people I know purposely avoid T&T because they loathe even trying to find a parking spot. Place a T&T along two major subway lines and off a major highway, and that place would be an astronomical success.
On the other hand, Metro at the old location (where Hullmark currently resides), was pretty much a dead store, and I don't see that much changing when it opens up at Emerald Park.
And I'm kind of surprised Sobeys hasn't yet opened any store in the NYCC area.T&T, Metro, and Whole foods in 20m of each other, with Loblaws maybe half a KM to the north ... seems a little much ....
We’re pleased to finally confirm that grocery giant Metro will occupy second storey retail space at Emerald Park. Metro is designing a state-of-the-art unique store for this location and the design will be completely unlike anything you’ve seen at other Metro stores.