One of many old style shopping plazas on the stretch of Kingston Rd between Markham & McCowan. I dropped in here to use the CIBC machine after some errands in the area and parked in the lot to make phone calls. I was struck by the amount of vacancies of small retail spaces and wondered how many other plazas have a similarly gloomy situation these days.
The location itself should not lack for traffic, hosting major banks (CIBC, Scotia) Dollarama, LCBO, Global Pet Food and a mid sized Shoppers. There's a Public Library that's not getting much action these days, but the Service Ontario is probably busy from the high concentration of used car dealers in the area.
This is also the location of Cliffside Hearth Bakery which I later looked up on Yelp and discovered it generates extreme review opinions both ways ..so must try for myself some day when I have room for gratuitous carbs.
While it's not much to look at, I personally prefer these older plazas for their wide, end-to-end verandas which provide for walking store to store in the shade and shielded from any rain or snow. Hopefully some new or relocating business will find a new post-lockdown home here. read more