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Originally Posted by north 42
I'm so happy that someone sees potential in Chatham St and wants to invest in multiple properties, especially someone from out of town.
I hope he renovates these properties properly, I cringed when I read he was gonna use stucco on parts of the Loop building, and I'm not sure about setting a food court in the building, seems kind of odd, bur,,oh well.
I guess he's still buying properties, which is great. Time will tell what happens once everything is done.
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Ya I hear ya on the stucco, but honestly the building needs a lot of restoration work it's been neglected for so long, beautiful building though. The idea of the food court, I actually think his idea is pretty cool. He mentioned a market and food court, where else downtown do you have something like that? The only place to buy food near downtown that is not a Shoppers Drug Mart or a Mini Mart is at the Food Basics and it's not in the core. With the student population increasing and the potential to have more students living in the downtown, I think to have amenities like a grocer will further enhance downtown's ability to attract and retain new people.
For some context for anyone else reading here's the origional article talking about the properties he has bought, and the second article talking about some of his ideas and intentions to possibly buy more property.
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http://windsorstar.com/news/local-ne...or-real-estate
source:
http://windsorstar.com/news/local-ne...chatham-street
The render is terribly ugly but you can tell it's a very impromptu hasty photoshop job just to kind of convey the colour scheme. (hehe you can even see the sloppyness if you notice the light post has been just painted over to match the context of the building
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Anyways I'm optimistic. Chatham street can be a cool little strip again, it has the spaces (which Windsor kind of lacks in terms on continuity on some of it's downtown streets).
Now if only the city would finish more of it's streetscaping initiative and bring a street like Chatham up to par because it's quite old and dilapidated looking with mismatched light poles (just like University) and uneven sidewalks.