[Northern Light]

Rumours of Canadian Tire sound convenient but, as others have said, redevelopment of the property is years if not a decade away. The development site is large enough to keep the current store open while a new podium level store is built. CT has done it before.

The current proposal by CT involves a development footprint that would preclude a temporary store on site. The whole matter is complicated by the fact the stores sits on two different parcels of land, with two different owners, who have two distinct redevelopment proposals.

The best hope for the vacated Lowes is a temporary outlet store or Metro wanting to expand.

Metro will not be expanding one of its largest stores in the entire country, if not its largest.......

The Shopper's World store is over 53,000ft2