Whitby SE Corner of Taunton Rd E & Brock St N | ?m | ?s

[billyt23]

Potential Future Development- Land for Sale: Broker/Listed by Avision Young. See https://www.avisonyoung.ca/properties?propertyId=787965-sale for further details.
No price.

All attached photos are screenshots taken from the Avison Young Property Brochure. The brochure can be found in the documents tab of the listing linked above.

 

[Northern Light]

Potential Future Development- Land for Sale: Broker/Listed by Avision Young. See https://www.avisonyoung.ca/properties?propertyId=787965-sale for further details.
No price.

All attached photos are screenshots taken from the Avison Young Property Brochure. The brochure can be found in the documents tab of the listing linked above.
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This site has been vacant for most of my life (perhaps more).

Which is to say, more than 4 decades..............

I wonder who sat on it for that long; and what changed.

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I became familiar w/this area in/around the age 10, when my father drove me out to Family Kartways; a GO Kart and small-scale amusement park, which was just north of Taunton, on the east side of Brock.

Whitby was then a City of 40,000 according to the MTO signage along the 401.

Today, it's in the neighbourhood of 135,000

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Back then, there were no cell phones (unless you count those 10lbs clunkers you could carry in a brief case)..........

And landline was long distance to Whitby.

........Funnily enough..........land line is still long distance to Whitby............

 

[skycandy]

The changes along (once sleepy) Brock north have been quite astonishing. With Smart Centres and Dumb Centres and everything in between. I grew up in Ashburn (north of here), and even Brooklin has ballooned enormously. The 407 extension is only adding to this. Durham is booming as much as any other part of the GTA.

 

[Northern Light]

The changes along (once sleepy) Brock north have been quite astonishing. With Smart Centres and Dumb Centres and everything in between. I grew up in Ashburn (north of here), and even Brooklin has ballooned enormously. The 407 extension is only adding to this. Durham is booming as much as any other part of the GTA.

What is it about Durham Region....of a few years ago that it generated multiple good photographers who moved to the big City?

Toronto picked up both you, and @kotsy.

 

[innsertnamehere]

Brooklin is going to absolutely explode in the next 10 years. Whitby is planning a frig ton of sprawl around the community.

I’m no photographer but I’m also a Durham Region kid.. but from Uxbridge.

 

[billyt23]

This site has been vacant for most of my life (perhaps more).

Which is to say, more than 4 decades..............

I wonder who sat on it for that long; and what changed.

****

I became familiar w/this area in/around the age 10, when my father drove me out to Family Kartways; a GO Kart and small-scale amusement park, which was just north of Taunton, on the east side of Brock.

Whitby was then a City of 40,000 according to the MTO signage along the 401.

Today, its in the neighbourhood of 135,000

****

Back then, there were no cell phones (unless you count those 10lbs clunkers you could carry in a brief case)..........

And landline was long distance to Whitby.

........Funnily enough..........land line is still long distance to Whitby............

I had never heard of Family Kartways before you mentioned it. Searched online and found a 1984 commercial. Also, found this https://www.facebook.com/groups/BHSociety/permalink/635412883945504/. I think the former location is just 400M north of this site.

 

[Northern Light]

I had never heard of Family Kartways before you mentioned it. Searched online and found a 1984 commercial. Also, found this https://www.facebook.com/groups/BHSociety/permalink/635412883945504/. I think the former location is just 400M north of this site.

The commercial on Youtube is here:

That's just before they started adding conventional amusement park rides:

From: member "Mr. D" at https://www.uer.ca/forum_showthread_archive.asp?fid=1&threadid=71098&currpage=2&pp#post27

 

[skycandy]

My heart emoji is for your Uxbridge comment, not the impending sprawl in Brooklin.

Brooklin is going to absolutely explode in the next 10 years. Whitby is planning a frig ton of sprawl around the community.

I’m no photographer but I’m also a Durham Region kid.. but from Uxbridge.

 

[Paclo]

A "Tavco Group" sign is now up on site.

Photo courtesy of @Edward Skira

 

[FutureDurham]

A "Tavco Group" sign is now up on site.

Photo courtesy of @Edward Skira
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I believe it’s been there for a year now