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1o The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville November 27.1974 Section Twon Fow 1928y o CanYo Names She'il Soon Be One-Year-Old but also any open space residential, the shopping cen- committee that they could adjoining. The bylaw was tre site is part of this land have stoped the shopping enacted by the previous Bow- parcel which according to centre if they hadn't sold them manville Council to change Councillor Hobbs was left a town road allowance right the subdivision area to the commercial. through the middle of the site - south from commercial to Mr. Howden also told the for a nominal fee of $2. When you build with Beaver, your best interest is our best interest. Julie Diane Griffin of Enfield, born Jan. 24, 1974, daughtei of Don and Donna Griffin (nee Samis). She is a granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Samis, Enfield, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Graham, Oshawa, and great-grand- daughter of Mrs. Irene Griffin, Oshawa. Claim New Shopping Centre Corner of King and Simpson Won't Harm Downtown Core A week ago Friday, the developers of the King St. and Simpson Avenue Shopping Centre were given the oppor- tunity to explain their project to downtown merchants and residents. The meeting was requested b ythe Bowmanville Chamber of Commerce and arranged by Newcastle Coun- cil. Last week's paper carried the beginning of this article. Max Bacon of the Proctor and. Redfern group of consulting engineers and planners made the following statements on behalf of the developers. He stated they want to work withcaouncil and that the land is zoned commercial and they want to build. A resident of the Frank St. apartments regis- tered a coiplaint he had with the present set up at the Dominion store. He stated that Frank St. was a parking lot littered with garbage and blocked by cars. He added that the shopping centre should be established in an area before the houses and this had not been the case on Frank St. Mr. Bacon stated a retaining wall could be placed around the parking lot of the proposed shopping centre. A question was directed to Peter Weston, president of D.M. Consultants as to their position with Dominion and Zellers on leasing the pro- posed commercial space. Mr. Weston.replied that under the original proposal they had firm commitments with Do- minion and Zellers and a major bank. However, the time period on the agreements with the stores has run out and the stores are again free agents. Mr. Weston added that the stores were still interested in locating there. With the moving of the Dominion Store to a larger store, Mr. Weston stated that interest had been expressed by an Oshawa Pharmaceuti- cal store to locate in the then empty Dominion building. Next -on the agenda was Gerald Jaku, a planner with the firm of W.W. Irwin Consultants. He said that in this area there was $8.5 million a year spent by residents on department store goods, of that amount the local merchants only obtain $3.0 million. The rest of the amount goes outside the area, mainly to Oshawa, this repre- sents 65 percent of the market, Mr. Jaku told the meeting. He stated Ithat this proposed shopping centre could retain a portion of the market leaving the area. In 1971 the popula- tion of Bowmanville was 8900 people, and he stated by 1976 the population facilities could grow to accomodate 14-15,000 people. This 100,000 foot shop- ping centre will not have an adverse effect of the down- town merchants, but will provide competition, Mr. Jake added. In conclusion to his formal address, Mr. Jaku stated that this was a "very choice market area-and there would be a lot of proposals" from developers. Mrs. Fred Kramp ques- tioned Mr. Jaku as to where he got his market figures, stating that merchants filled in gov't forms as to the amount of business done on the under- standing that the information was confidential. Mr, Jaku replied that the figures were not confidential, only the names of the businesses. To a question from Larry Shank on the priority placed on recent renovation pro- grams for the downtown core Mr. Smith replied that it was impossible to renovate areas without the help of federal and provincial grants, it was more easible to build new.outlets. He added it would take two years to get the shopping centre built, there being other approvals to attain after Newcastle issues the building permits. George Webster told the meeting that there was no pressure to having shopping centres as indicated. He stated when it-comes to prices we can trim them, when if comes to friendly service we can trim them. He added that what they did to the guality of ie is deplorable this is a community not a city." "Shop- ping centres are all the same - glass plastic newness - but no character," he said. He went on to say that the national trend indicates a decline in business in centres, but our business has not felt this decline. Councillor Don Allin spoke in favor of seeing development in Bowmanville, he stated there was no available office space,'no place other than the Flying Dutchman Motor Inn to have dinner with your wife and that lie had gone to the biggest hardware store in Bowmanville and had to wait 35 minutes to be served. In an earlier discussion at the meeting a number of residents from Hobbs Drive expressed their concern about the entrances to the proposed shopping centre being on their street. Mr. Smith replied that it was not the developers intention to have them there, but on Simpson Ave. and King Street. He added that as soon as council removed the one foot reserves on these streets, the developer would place the entranêes where they were on the original proposai. Bob Stevens asked why council opposed the entrance off Simpson Avenue. Mayor Garnet Rickard stated council had no objection to this once they see a site-plan agreement with the developer. . Fred Tippins posed the question "did the previous council reject this proposal. Councillor Ivan Hobbs replied that several proposals were held up for a study to be done. The planners objected, Coun- cillor Don Allin added. Bob Dykstra brought it to the meeting's attention that this proposal was flatly turned down by the Ontario Central Joint Planning board in Aug- ist 1973 andBowmanville Council endorsed the board's decision. Mr. Dykstra added that the people on the joint planning board were now on P iHE WORST THING iABOUT GROWING OLD, YOU HAVE TO TAKE ADVICE FROM YOUR CHIDREN. 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