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Rainy Day

Abandoned Commercial in Toronto, Ontario

Apr 04 2024

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Security is indeed very aggressive. I hopped a fence to avoid one car and took a walk around the building, only to bump into yet another! (Then again, it might just have been the same car circling to meet me.) I was not confronted, probably because the weather was miserable and wet.

I wasn't lucky enough to find an opening, but it was still interesting to see the slow renovation taking place as well as hints of what the building used to be. A very dismal place in the rain.

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From Google Maps: September 2007. Sorry about the quality - but you can still see the old logo with the honeybees visible over the entrance.
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From Google Maps: June 2009. The sign over the main entrance has changed.
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From Google Maps: August 2014. Sorry for the bad angle, but here it's visible that the mall is now quite dead. The lot is empty and the entrance sign on the left has been stripped.
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From Google Maps: October 2015. A better view of the empty lot and the painted-over NoFrills in the background.
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From Google Maps: May 2019. Trucks start showing up in the lot.
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From Google Maps: October 2019. More trucks!
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From Google Maps: May 2021. Some kind of trucking company sprang up.
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From Google Maps: October 2021. Well, that trucking company did not last long.
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Now. The trucks are back, but now they belong to the neighbouring Metro building.
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Peeling signs and a sad rainbow canopy.
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A better view of the trucks and the faded mall entrance.
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The remains of the entry signs (in orange) directing cars into the lot.
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Side of the building. Tons of crates branded with a demolition company.
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Doors were shut nice and tight...

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