Looking at Twitter, we see that around midnight, nine fire vehicles were dispatched to the area.
[1] TOR Fire: Commercial Industrial (lower Jarvis St - Queens Quay E) R325 P333 P334 A333 C33 C31 R326 A325 La333 P312
Showing posts with label Loblaws. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Loblaws. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Holy Joe! Fire at Queens Quay Loblaws building overnight
We were out for a morning run when we jaunted by the Loblaws on Queens Quay. When we saw outside the front doors of Joe Fresh clothing, a bundle of burnt clothing and the door open. A window was broken and the smell of, well, burning, persisted.
Looking at Twitter, we see that around midnight, nine fire vehicles were dispatched to the area.
Looking at Twitter, we see that around midnight, nine fire vehicles were dispatched to the area.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Bag it for a nickel at Loblaws
At the Loblaws at Queens Quay and Jarvis, you'll have to pay 5 cents a bag starting Monday.
Says the company
Starting Monday, January 12, 2009, Loblaw corporate and participating franchise stores in the City of Toronto will no longer provide complimentary plastic shopping bags at check-out and charge $0.05 per plastic shopping bag, when they are requested by customers. Toronto is the lead city for the campaign, which will roll out nationally on April 22, 2009, Earth Day.
Research conducted for Loblaw by Leger Marketing in December 2008 revealed that four in five Torontonians (84%) support Loblaw's plan to divert 1 billion plastic shopping bags from landfills in 2009 by implementing a pay for plastic shopping bag program.The news didn't really go well over some, here's a report from the Toronto Sun
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To help customers with the transition away from plastic shopping bags, Loblaw is offering a variety of special limited time promotions in its Toronto stores. From January 9th to 18th, our PC G.R.E.E.N. Reusable Shopping Bags (large and regular size) are 50 per cent off. Visit www.loblaws.ca, www.superstore.ca, www.valuemart.ca and www.fortinos.ca for an online coupon for a free G.R.E.E.N. Box with a minimum $25 purchase at participating Toronto stores (see online details for coupons).
Loblaws will start charging a nickel for plastic bags tomorrow, but some forgetful customers say it’s not enough incentive to bring their own bags.
“I’m not going to be carrying (reusable) bags around day and night,” said Rob Thomson, 73, at the Queens Quay Loblaws while pushing his cartload of plastic-bagged groceries.
“It’s not the solution. I’m not going to be carrying those (reusable) bags with me to the office or in the car because I never know when I’m going to go shopping.
"It’s not always planned,” he adds.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Watching Queens Quay's eastern front: East Bayside
Many of us Queens Quay dwellers venture out east beyond Yonge Street. We go east to get to the big LCBO or to the mega Loblaws at Jarvis. Some of us would venture as far as the Guvernment or maybe even visit one of the piers.
As well, any cyclist, occassional runner or, more likely, a driver who has used Queens Quay as a median to get from downtown to the Beaches knows the kilometre or so stretch from Jarvis to Cherry Street. It's vast, unhospital, and lonely. In reality, it's one of the key routes that links up to the waterfront and the last big parcels of land that's disconnecting us from the water.
Walk on the south side of Queens Quay and you'll be forced to either walk on railroad tracks right in front of the sugar factory or cross to the north side.
What is now a relatively quiet area is about to change with a project called East Bayfront, set to bring massive development. We'll save big opinions on this for later posts but it's at least worth looking at the area.
Waterfront Toronto calls it the jewel in the waterfront crown (excuse us, we think York to Bathurst ain't bad, let alone the area south of High Park -- whoops, so much for lacking in commentary).
The picture below, taken from their website and highlighted through some photoshopping, is the area in question. Right now, west of the the sugar plant, there's starting to be activity. For many years, it was used as vacant land or for some short of warehouse use. There's also that sports dome at Sherbourne.
Some randomness about the project (see website here):
-Transit a 5 minute walk (No plans yet of a streetcar line? We know there's a bus that stops in front of the Loblaws and the nearest Streetcar is north at King street or west at the Westin (a kilometre a way -- 5 minutes is a very quick walk)
-It's 22 hectares (about 50 football fields if you're wondering. American football fields)
-6000 residential units (1000 of them affordable).
-Jobs for 8000
-A 1.5K waterfront walkway
Two parks to be completed by 2010, Sugar Beach (named, presumably after the molasses smelling Redpath facility) and Sherbourne Park (named after, well, the street). We'll post renderings of both of them tomorrow.
Their sales pitch:
"Low scale development along the water's edge"
"2.5 million sq. ft. of commercial space"
The official PR line:
"East Bayfront is a 22-hectare (55-acre) site, envisioned to be a showcase dynamic mixed-use community - a place of design excellence, high levels of sustainability and strong relationships to the water's edge. East Bayfront will become an animated downtown neighbourhood where people are drawn to live, work and play.
There are two development sites (Bayside and Parkside):
Parkside pictured top right in blue, a one acre site at Queens Quay East and Lower Sherbourne Street, has 700,000 sq ft for mixed used
Who's short listed to build:
The Daniels Corporation (Canada): Builder developer that built the Eaton Centre
The Great Gulf Group of Companies (Canada): firm that builds family homes
Menkes Development Ltd. (Canada) and AEW Capital Management LP (USA): home, condo and commercial builder
Tridel Builders Inc. (Canada) and Concert Properties Ltd. (Canada): Tridel is a major condo builder (list of past condos). Concert Properties is a condo builder with most projects in B.C.
Walker Corporation Pty Ltd. (Australia) and Cityzen Development Corporation (Canada): Walker is based in Australia and Cityzen is building the Pier 27 project.
Bayside, a 13 acre site between Lower Sherbourne Street and Parliament Street has (1.7 million sq ft) of mixed-use development potential.
Short listed teams:
The Cadillac Fairview Corporation Limited (Canada), Monarch (Canada),
Fram Building Group Ltd. (Canada) and Albanese Development Corporation (USA): Cadillac Fairview in commercial real estate and Monarch is a condo and home builder. Fram is also a condo and home developer.
Hines (USA)
Menkes Development Ltd. (Canada) and AEW Capital Management LP (USA): home, condo and commercial builder
Walker Corporation Pty Ltd. (Australia) and Cityzen Development Corporation (Canada): Walker is based in Australia and Cityzen is building the Pier 27 project.
As well, any cyclist, occassional runner or, more likely, a driver who has used Queens Quay as a median to get from downtown to the Beaches knows the kilometre or so stretch from Jarvis to Cherry Street. It's vast, unhospital, and lonely. In reality, it's one of the key routes that links up to the waterfront and the last big parcels of land that's disconnecting us from the water.
Walk on the south side of Queens Quay and you'll be forced to either walk on railroad tracks right in front of the sugar factory or cross to the north side.
What is now a relatively quiet area is about to change with a project called East Bayfront, set to bring massive development. We'll save big opinions on this for later posts but it's at least worth looking at the area.
Waterfront Toronto calls it the jewel in the waterfront crown (excuse us, we think York to Bathurst ain't bad, let alone the area south of High Park -- whoops, so much for lacking in commentary).
The picture below, taken from their website and highlighted through some photoshopping, is the area in question. Right now, west of the the sugar plant, there's starting to be activity. For many years, it was used as vacant land or for some short of warehouse use. There's also that sports dome at Sherbourne.
Some randomness about the project (see website here):
-Transit a 5 minute walk (No plans yet of a streetcar line? We know there's a bus that stops in front of the Loblaws and the nearest Streetcar is north at King street or west at the Westin (a kilometre a way -- 5 minutes is a very quick walk)
-It's 22 hectares (about 50 football fields if you're wondering. American football fields)
-6000 residential units (1000 of them affordable).
-Jobs for 8000
-A 1.5K waterfront walkway
Two parks to be completed by 2010, Sugar Beach (named, presumably after the molasses smelling Redpath facility) and Sherbourne Park (named after, well, the street). We'll post renderings of both of them tomorrow.
Their sales pitch:
"Low scale development along the water's edge"
"2.5 million sq. ft. of commercial space"
The official PR line:
"East Bayfront is a 22-hectare (55-acre) site, envisioned to be a showcase dynamic mixed-use community - a place of design excellence, high levels of sustainability and strong relationships to the water's edge. East Bayfront will become an animated downtown neighbourhood where people are drawn to live, work and play.
There are two development sites (Bayside and Parkside):
Parkside pictured top right in blue, a one acre site at Queens Quay East and Lower Sherbourne Street, has 700,000 sq ft for mixed used
Who's short listed to build:
The Daniels Corporation (Canada): Builder developer that built the Eaton Centre
The Great Gulf Group of Companies (Canada): firm that builds family homes
Menkes Development Ltd. (Canada) and AEW Capital Management LP (USA): home, condo and commercial builder
Tridel Builders Inc. (Canada) and Concert Properties Ltd. (Canada): Tridel is a major condo builder (list of past condos). Concert Properties is a condo builder with most projects in B.C.
Walker Corporation Pty Ltd. (Australia) and Cityzen Development Corporation (Canada): Walker is based in Australia and Cityzen is building the Pier 27 project.
Bayside, a 13 acre site between Lower Sherbourne Street and Parliament Street has (1.7 million sq ft) of mixed-use development potential.
Short listed teams:
The Cadillac Fairview Corporation Limited (Canada), Monarch (Canada),
Fram Building Group Ltd. (Canada) and Albanese Development Corporation (USA): Cadillac Fairview in commercial real estate and Monarch is a condo and home builder. Fram is also a condo and home developer.
Hines (USA)
Menkes Development Ltd. (Canada) and AEW Capital Management LP (USA): home, condo and commercial builder
Walker Corporation Pty Ltd. (Australia) and Cityzen Development Corporation (Canada): Walker is based in Australia and Cityzen is building the Pier 27 project.
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