sunnyraytoronto
Senior Member
Walk around the NYCC area,... go into some of the buildings and malls,... get away from streetlevel,.. go to lower concourse of Sheppard Centre to check out the empty "moat", both of them,.... retail space for lease sign been there like forever (its been so long since that GoldenGriddle then Keg then pub closed!). Check out lower level of Madision Centre,... Check out the lower level of North York City Centre,.. about 3/4 of the retail space is all boarded up! See how dead the upper levels at EmpressWalk are.
alklay,... Where do you go shopping? Do you do all your shopping exclusively at small tiny stores? Buy one item, line up and pay for it,... go to the next tiny store, buy another item, line up again and pay for it,... go to the next tiny store, buy another item, line up again and pay for it,... go to the next tiny store, buy another item, line up again and pay for it,...go to the next tiny store, buy another item, line up again and pay for it,... Wow, I wished I had that much free time! ;p
Large store are the anchors that draw shoppers into an area,.. whether it's a Walmart, Target, Ikea, CanadianTire, BestBuy, Toy-R-Us, BigBox stores (HomeDepot-Costco), Chapters or large supermarket grocer, etc,...
With 2 levels of retails at Hullmark Centre opening up soon and another 2 level of retail at EmeraldPark opening up likely late next year,... Do you think all this retail space will survive? Are you confusing Yonge&Sheppard for Yonge&Dundas??? Sheppard Centre knows it desperately need to renovate and reinvent itself with large brand name anchor stores to compete. A supermarket would be a quick fix,... but HullmarkCentre will have a WholesFood,... EmeraldPark will have a Metro,... can 3 supermarkets thrive at basically the 4 corners of Yonge & Sheppard??? (Where in Toronto do you even see 2 large supermarkets across the street from each other?) The anchors that SheppardCentre desperately needs will have to be something other than just a supermarket,... yeah, get ready for the price roll-back at Walmart!
If Sheppard Centre stays in it current mostly small stores format that consist mainly of numerous cell phone and cell phone accessories stores, bulk barn copycats, small leather good stores, shoe repair, video game store, small clothing stores, pant alteration, Dollar store, money-marts, small electronic stores, nail salon,.... it'll soon deteriorate to a flea market. Yeah,... flea-market. Walk around SheppardCentre,... that's exactly what the previous owner was letting happen,...
alklay,... Where do you go shopping? Do you do all your shopping exclusively at small tiny stores? Buy one item, line up and pay for it,... go to the next tiny store, buy another item, line up again and pay for it,... go to the next tiny store, buy another item, line up again and pay for it,... go to the next tiny store, buy another item, line up again and pay for it,...go to the next tiny store, buy another item, line up again and pay for it,... Wow, I wished I had that much free time! ;p
Large store are the anchors that draw shoppers into an area,.. whether it's a Walmart, Target, Ikea, CanadianTire, BestBuy, Toy-R-Us, BigBox stores (HomeDepot-Costco), Chapters or large supermarket grocer, etc,...
With 2 levels of retails at Hullmark Centre opening up soon and another 2 level of retail at EmeraldPark opening up likely late next year,... Do you think all this retail space will survive? Are you confusing Yonge&Sheppard for Yonge&Dundas??? Sheppard Centre knows it desperately need to renovate and reinvent itself with large brand name anchor stores to compete. A supermarket would be a quick fix,... but HullmarkCentre will have a WholesFood,... EmeraldPark will have a Metro,... can 3 supermarkets thrive at basically the 4 corners of Yonge & Sheppard??? (Where in Toronto do you even see 2 large supermarkets across the street from each other?) The anchors that SheppardCentre desperately needs will have to be something other than just a supermarket,... yeah, get ready for the price roll-back at Walmart!
If Sheppard Centre stays in it current mostly small stores format that consist mainly of numerous cell phone and cell phone accessories stores, bulk barn copycats, small leather good stores, shoe repair, video game store, small clothing stores, pant alteration, Dollar store, money-marts, small electronic stores, nail salon,.... it'll soon deteriorate to a flea market. Yeah,... flea-market. Walk around SheppardCentre,... that's exactly what the previous owner was letting happen,...