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Woodbine Centre

If the Dollarama at Islington and Rexdale has taught us anything, it's that your typical Dollarama can survive even the most nuclear of enclosed mall demolitions;
just as long as the lease price is right and the space is still available to rent.

If Woodbine Mall were to get demolished, there's still a chance TD, Freedom and Dollarama could live on - as components of (yet another) Etobicoke strip mall.
 
Mr. Rexdale said:
If the Dollarama at Islington and Rexdale has taught us anything, it's that your typical Dollarama can survive even the most nuclear of enclosed mall demolitions;
just as long as the lease price is right and the space is still available to rent.

If Woodbine Mall were to get demolished, there's still a chance TD, Freedom and Dollarama could live on - as components of (yet another) Etobicoke strip mall.
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I think it’s about time to tear down the woodbine mall.
 
RGB_11 said:
I don't. There's still some life in it yet, depending on what the plan is for replacing the former Bay space. HOPEFULLY not another liquidation store.
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Whoever takes it over has quite the task to refurb the place. So maybe rebuilding a bunch of box stores would be the cheapest way forward?
 
It's been a while since I posted any retro photos of Woodbine's history here.
The following is a view of Highway 27 looking north to Rexdale Blvd. I believe the year was around 1955.
On the right, you can see the old Highfield Public School in the area that would eventually become the Woodbine Centre.

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Highfield Public School was built in 1874. A single classroom, one teacher setup that existed on these lands until the school was closed in 1954, and
then demolished by 1957.

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The below aerial map shows a view of the land from 1956. While Rexdale's redevelopment was underway, the surrounding area
still mostly-consisted of Methodist era farmland.

Highway 27 appears on the left with Rexdale Blvd towards the bottom of the page.
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They could have just said the entire fair was closed to save themselves the effort required to bust out Microsoft Paint for this important announcement.

Here's a pic of when the fair (and rest of the mall) was operational. Back in 1994.

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Woodbine's former daycare can be seen on the right.
 
Mr. Rexdale said:
They could have just said the entire fair was closed to save themselves the effort required to bust out Microsoft Paint for this important announcement.
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If Woodbine fair can last until the summer, they should convert some of the parking lot into a fair ground, adding in games & whatever.
That would be smart.
 
RGB_11 said:
If Woodbine fair can last until the summer, they should convert some of the parking lot into a fair ground, adding in games & whatever.
That would be smart.
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Woodbine features summer events such as an Afro Caribbean music festival and a carnival at the end of October.
The rest of the year is home to the tractor trailers, which never seem to leave the property.
 
Mr. Rexdale said:
Woodbine features summer events such as an Afro Caribbean music festival and a carnival at the end of October.
The rest of the year is home to the tractor trailers, which never seem to leave the property.
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Somehow I forgot about those tractor trailers...perhaps paying more rent than anything else can bring in?
 
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