After a year of consultation and a year of demo the Trinity Development Group is about to begin construction of The Stockyards, a 650,000 sq.ft retail shopping centre on the northwest corner of St. Clair Avenue West and Weston Road.
The new shopping centre is a welcome contrast to the traditional big box centres that line St. Clair. It has a pedestrian and street friendly design which the developers refer to as a “main street feel”.
The centre is scheduled to open in the fall of 2012, with dozens of new stores including the Royal Bank, PetSmart, Linen Chest, Bouclair, Shoe Company, Boston Pizza, Marshalls, Best Buy, Michaels, HomeSense, and a GoodLife Fitness club.
Follow this Link, Stock Yards Development, to view the plans and a short video of the shopping centre.
This centre is going to change the Stock Yards and the Junction in a dramatic way. Let us know your thoughts on this by leaving a comment or taking the poll.
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The north end of the Junction has the potential for to be a great, reinvented area. The streetcar ROW has really transformed the public realm. This development is a great start in terms of how it embraces the main street, the diversity of retail, and the way the new grid of (private) streets will break up the block, making the area more walkable and friendly for alternative ways of getting around besides driving. Too bad there’s no residential component above the stores.
A mix of multi-storey commercial/residential buildings built to the sidewalk’s edge should be St. Clair’s future for a pedestrian- and transit-friendly urban district that could compliment the traditional Dundas strip beautifully. Imagine Bloor, Dundas, and St. Clair all densely-built and vibrant with people, each with their own unique and pleasant flavour. It could happen with the right leadership and community engagement.