The Planning Advisory Committee yesterday approved Loblaws application to build a No Frills brand grocery store on the N.E. corner of Wyandotte St W. & Crawford.
Most of the houses that will be demolished have already been purchased by Loblaws. Here are the ones that are already vacant.
Of note, this one above is pretty old. That Gothic style peaked roof in the front usually dates to about the 1870’s.
On the plus side, it should create 175 new jobs. Any anytime we as consumers can get a little bit of competition in the low cost grocery market, we all win.
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Hi Andrew... the first house you added there was a rumour about an old man that lived there, and weeks went by and i guess the police went into the house and found all these grocery bags full of food on the kitchen floor, and they were so spoiled from the heat..and it smelled really bad in there. and then found out the man who lived there took off....just left and never was heard of again. and kids caused a little fire in there as well. anyways that house you said about being in the 1870's. Yes i think your right. there are about 4 of them on that street..I can't wait til they get rid of them! They make this area look like the slums of west windsor. thanks again....bye
With all the updates these homes have seen such as the dread vinyl siding, sometimes their true age is hidden well. That first house stopped me dead in my tracks - I must have driven by it a thousand times without noticing it as a "high seniority" home by Windsor standards.
I know these houses are old, but if no one wants to live in them, why keep them? A lot of older homes have low ceilings, not much storage, and a primitive basement, let alone ancient wiring, and decades of band-aid repairs and updates. These homes were built for a purpose, and that purpose has been served. Time to move on. A grocery store usually makes a neighborhood more appealing - Detroit has a dearth of them, plus creating some jobs and probably some spin-off development too. Overall, a good development for the area. Thanks for reporting it.
i think tearing down the old homes is a mistake. you've already got a price chopper across the street and a food-basics less than five minutes away. if toronto can rehab decrepit old houses not much bigger than a garden shed why can't we? i think if the city made that area more attractive, like erie street, people would want to live there. i don't windsor's core area could support another major grocery store.
Thank God it's private sector and not the City demolishing the buildings for parking lots.
Touche!
I'm surprised it has taken this long for Loblaws to open a No Frills within Windsor - there are several of their locations around the city I've long thought would have been converted (a couple of the old Loeb stores or the former SuperCentre on Dougall)
Funny.. still no store?
They knocked down the houses, and...nothing. More than 8 years, later.
In the late sixties Loblaws closed all their Windsor stores and fired all the staff. That is probably why they have used these names instead, Gordons, Super Center, Zhers, and Great Canadian Super Store, they finally opened The Box by Loblaws in the old Mr. Grocer at Wyandotte and George.
May be after fifty some years they think people still do not like them.