kingston - home of the big box store

article in the whig today about the possibility for yet another big box development in k-town. this one would be plopped at the corner of sir john a. and princess, just behind the paint and pet food place and would include a new crappy tire and walmart. and... the new stores would dwarf the old ones. yep, they are planning larger versions of the already massive sites.

while the cdn tire would be bigger, by 1,800 square metres, than the current record holder out on gardener's road (the new one would be 110,000 square feet for imperial comparison). by the time it's completed, though, one in halifax will have been built at a mind-numbing 14,000 square metres (the gardener's one is a relatively puny 8,400). that's a hell of a lot of wd-40, second-rate electronics and discounted camping gear.

however, both of these stores would have sand kicked in their faces by the 20,000 square metre behemoth that is the new walmart (215,000 square feet), some 7,500 square metres bigger than the current one in the township.

apparently there is demand for these guys - along with a new department store and hardware store (the first lowes perhaps???). i was hoping for an ikea. to figure out the walmart demand they actually counted licence plates and did a geographical analysis of where people were coming from. yep, if you went to walmart over the past few months and had not stolen a car to get there, they most likely know.

i have no idea what this will do to the kings crossing development taking shape over on division at the 401. already they've begun the clear cut and assessment of the groups in prep of constructing that big box heaven. wild stuff. and we can start the betting on what the old cdn tire will become once the new one is up and running. i've voting for waterpark.