Urbanity in Scarborough will have to start spreading from somewhere…
Meanwhile, reading back in the thread and seeing that the land is put to good use as a manufacturing plant currently (if that's still the case) means that I'm not in any rush to see the change in land use pictured above.
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"....This application pertains to lands located at 675 Progress Avenue (currently occupied by the A.G. Simpson heavy metal stamping plant, which is scheduled to cease operation in the spring of 2011)..."
The plant manufactured steel bumpers for vehicles - not a sustainable long term business plan. While chrome covered steel bumpers disappeared from cars a long time ago, the market for steel bumpers for pickup trucks lasted longer, but now has disappeared as well. I believe Scarborough A G Simpson plant shut down as planned in 2011. The A G Simpson plant in Oakville closed around the time of the original AG Simpson bankruptcy and restructuring in the 2001 / 2002 timeframe.
Like what happened in downtown Toronto - the two Kings (King and Parliament, King and Spadina) - the nature of industry in the city evolves. I think it is doubtful that heavy metal stamping, or other equivalent use is likely to find its way into this plant. It will either need to be recycled into some other form of employment use, or the land repurposed to some other higher value use (e.g. residential or commercial/residential), as is being proposed.
