Airboy
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Yup the Manager from the St Al store is moving to this one.Good news! Finally a bike shop to better serve the Oliver/downtown area.
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Yup the Manager from the St Al store is moving to this one.Good news! Finally a bike shop to better serve the Oliver/downtown area.
A tiny update. They are definitely moving on this project. Footings have been laid out for a small building as of a day ago. I was going to go back today to get a couple pics but I guess I'll wait for this new snowfall to melt again.So I've noticed work has been happening a the stretch of land on Gateway Blvd North of 34ave. It appears they are finally getting going on this project.
On my weekend stroll, I found this one:
It's at the entrance of Little Italy.
That there is the kind of small lot development we need!On my weekend stroll, I found this one:
It's at the entrance of Little Italy.
yes, actually! well, kinda. i saw this a couple days ago while biking through and when i stopped for photos one of the neighbours happened to see me and they told the story. SO it's been flip=flopping owners since 2017, when the longtime church owners sold it to a developer. to make a long story of absent owners and abandonment and resales short, it's now owned by a developer looking to put housing on each side of the building (retaining the brick building, getting rid of the one house, and filling in the parking lots).
yes, actually! well, kinda. i saw this a couple days ago while biking through and when i stopped for photos one of the neighbours happened to see me and they told the story. SO it's been flip=flopping owners since 2017, when the longtime church owners sold it to a developer. to make a long story of absent owners and abandonment and resales short, it's now owned by a developer looking to put housing on each side of the building (retaining the brick building, getting rid of the one house, and filling in the parking lots).
the fence is there to deter unwanted access/squatting (which it is not very effective at, apparently) and the bin is for the remediation happening in the brick building. apparently none of the radiators got drained when utilities were shut off (honestly, how do people own buildings like this and miss that?!) and so the interior is pretty much shot after getting soaked and left for a couple years to fester. The neighbour i spoke to didn't know scope of work on that or anything, I'd assume it was just getting all the mould out, given the lack of solid plans for this building thus far.
anyways, that's what that is. as far as the neighbour (who lived directly across from this, he seemed very up to date) the brick building isn't going anywhere.
The long and short of it is slum clearance. To condense a half-century of history, by the late '70s Boyle Street was largely home to low-income earners and minority groups renting out aging pre-Great War housing. The powers-that-be saw it as shabby and dangerous and stated buying up properties to demolish. Couple that with slumlords running their buildings into the ground, and plenty of redevelopment projects that went nowhere, you get what's there today; a lot of people displaced and a lot of history gone.Question, what happened to the Quarters? I know buildings come and go, but there is a large area that's pretty much barren. There are other areas DT that are similar under developed blocks, but not this many in an area. Even the surface parking lots look like they might shank you.
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