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Future development South of Patricia

Adam

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Future development South of Patricia
8/12/2022 at 9:21 AM

No shortage of chatter about future commercial development South of Patricia over the past number of years.

The agenda at the upcoming Monday council meeting i:ncludes the document at the link below as efforts to move the football down the field continue for a development that from a map at the link looks like it could i:nclude a 36,000 sqft grocery store, a major retail outlet that to the eye looks to be in the area of 3x that size, restaurants, a bank and others.

Link is:
https://paperlesscouncil.brandon.ca/attachments/A_2022/GEN_ZPSLTIVKSIJJHJBHYDCXUNLEGYJIJMJBDPKCDOMJHLOVPKLDGSA_Support%20for%20Commercial%20Access%20PTH%2010%20(18th%20St)%20South%20of%20Patricia%20Avenue.pdf

Mondays full agenda is at:
https://www.brandon.ca/images/pdf/CouncilAgendas/20220815_Agenda/Agenda_-_August_15_2022.pdf

Plenty of unconfirmed rumours floating around on grocery and retail potential locations at future development in the area. What tenants would you like to see at this location?
JosephC
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Filename
8/12/2022 at 12:22 PM

The filename at the bottom of the site diagram has "CT and SO Foods" in it.....I wonder if there is meaning to that, and if the large retail space is a planned move for Canadian Tire and/or if SO Foods refers to Save-On Foods.

Edited by JosephC, 2022-08-12 12:31:28
Iceman69
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few
8/12/2022 at 10:48 PM

Costco would be great in that area.. but it most likely won't happen.

I bet NoFrills or FreshCO would be something that can come in that area. Rumors has it that Saveon wants to be in the old Sobeys location, however, that lease isn't up until Oct 2023. Not sure if this area of new commercial would be already be building things by then.

Walmart second location would work as well.

As far as a bank, my bet is Bank of Montreal.
As for Canadian Tire.. as per the blueprint.. it can be.. but it would be a massive Canadian Tire.

Edited by Iceman69, 2022-08-12 23:07:16
tomi
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Why
8/12/2022 at 11:03 PM

If there is that kind of money to throw around, isn’t something being done with the disgusting mess that down town Brandon has become. If there is more need for retail buildings, why is the old Sobery’s store still sitting empty?
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sobeys
8/12/2022 at 11:10 PM

tomi said "If there is that kind of money to throw around, isn’t something being done with the disgusting mess that down town Brandon has become. If there is more need for retail buildings, why is the old Sobery’s store still sitting empty? "
The old Sobeys is still empty because the franchisee of Sobeys south end holds the lease to it, which is set to expire Oct 2023.

As far as downtown Brandon, IMO there is no saving it.. and there is no point in wasting tax dollars.
Adam

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Possibilities
8/12/2022 at 11:50 PM

JosephC said "The filename at the bottom of the site diagram has "CT and SO Foods" in it.....I wonder if there is meaning to that, and if the large retail space is a planned move for Canadian Tire and/or if SO Foods refers to Save-On Foods.

Edited by JosephC, 2022-08-12 12:31:28"
Interesting catch.
Even if the initials do refer to those businesses it could just as easily be aspirational by the developer without anything committed by the companies. A few years ago a site plan for the same location had an outline eerily similar to a Costco… which looks unlikely for that to be the case in this latest diagram.

Fwiw, I did notice Save On featured on the new Cibc billboards in town right now. But that by itself has to be taken with a huge grain of salt, it wouldn’t be the first time a corporate mass-deployed a billboard across markets and didn’t catch that it isn’t relevant to this one. Will say that Save On are aggressively expanding in Western Canada and targeting 5-10 new stores per year as per:
https://canadiangrocer.com/western-ambition

On the chance CT does mean Canadian Tire… they might very well be happy and committed where they are, but worth keeping in mind that they do have other banners under their umbrella like Marks, Sport Chek, Party City... not to say that any of those necessarily have a need to relocate or build here and should be assumed planted unless proven otherwise.

Here’s a random thought that’s nothing more than a random thought and has nothing behind it to be taken any more seriously than an exercise in brainstorming. There’s a trend in malls to couple density housing with mall properties. Maybe portions of the land on the East side of 18th from the mall could be especially valuable for that kind of housing… pending a total re-think of the pedestrian mess that area is right now!
nkorpan
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Candian Tire
8/13/2022 at 8:23 AM

The new Canadian Tire stores are 2 storeys and huge. Already a few in Ontario. The current one is way to small and cramped. Not really worth going there when its busy.
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CT
8/13/2022 at 11:38 AM

We also have to remember the blueprint is a concept drawing. It just shows what type of things that be built in the area.

I think the current CT is fine where it is at. IF vacated, it will be hard to fill that spot unless the company that owns it overhauls the whole building or breaks it down.