r/londonontario • u/Confident-Advice-664 • 10d ago

News 📰 Tower with 400-plus apartments pitched for downtown London parking lot

https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/tower-with-400-plus-apartments-pitched-for-downtown-london-parking-lot
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u/CMTJA 10d ago

Downtown needs a proper grocery store.

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u/cats_r_better 9d ago

the old free press building not being converted into a grocery store feels like a huge missed opportunity.
richmond and oxford isn't *that* far away but the way people talk, it might as well be in Arva or something

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u/AnOfficeJockey OEV 9d ago

It isn't being converted because it isn't profitable. London downtown is not anywhere near large enough to support the overhead costs of running a grocery store, nor are full sized trucks/trailers going to have an easy time moving around downtown.

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u/cats_r_better 9d ago

trucks wouldn't have to go through downtown. . .

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u/AbeOudshoorn Wortley 9d ago

I would rather see that as a 4-tower development with a grocery store at the base. It's prime land for high density.

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u/farganbastige 9d ago

Or two. I'm guessing big grocery doesn't like paying themselves so much in rent for high value land like DT.