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Originally Posted by Argusean
Anyone have any idea of the plans for the former Costco/Target/Princess Auto properties on Stavanger Drive and Aberdeen Drive? I believe Powell's Supermarket owns the former Princess Auto building, and a development company now owns Target/Costco buildings? My son had a great proposal for Costco/Target if the buildings cannot find new anchor tenants. He suggested levelling the property and building a modern village square similar to Churchill Square with mixed commercial at ground level and apartments/condos up top. Build it on a scale identical to Churchill Square and this could be a landmark of how to redevelop properties at risk.
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No those buildings are a huge waste at the moment.
There was an announcement of Government looking for 78,000 Sq ft of space on the Northeast Avalon for Ambulatory care. That's a significant amount of space. Being that the old Costco building is about 142,000 Sq. ft. and Target was around 120,000 Sq ft that kind of facility would take a good portion of one of these buildings. Plus there is parking available. I can't think of many other buildings that would offer that much space and parking unless it was a new build.
https://vocm.com/2023/05/26/governme...theast-avalon/
On the idea of making the area like Churchill Square, that's interesting... I had hoped the Shoppes at Galway would be more like Dartmouth Crossing in NS. So far it's not near as nice.
I know there is a Costco and Ikea in that area as well as other big box stores. But there is a shopping area with shops and a park area, very much a town square vibe. The stores are mainly big retail but the style of the buildings is town square. Everything we have so far is big metal boxes all spaced a mile apart.
https://dartmouthcrossing.com/
In the same line are shopping areas in Kanata, ON such as the Kanata Entertainment Centrum is nice and the Tanger Outlet mall. Also Town Square Las Vegas.
These all seem to me to encourage a casual shopping experience. I think the opportunity is there if some smart developer were to take it.
http://entertainmentcentrumkanata.com/directory/
https://www.tanger.com/ottawa
https://mytownsquarelasvegas.com/
I know the weather in those locations is much different from St. John's and that impacts things. But the concepts are nice.
As far as I can determine in Dartmouth Crossing there is office space in the area as well on the backside of the buildings, separate from any office buildings. Not sure about residential in there.