Workers are busy gutting now closed Mac’s Milk at Sunnybrook Plaza
As tenants move out at Sunnybrook Plaza the remaining businesses are comparing notes on when they might be told they will have to leave. There are now seven vacancies including long-time merchants like Gentry Clothiers. Mac’s Milk departed a couple of days ago and workers are now gutting the store. Meanwhile a belief is growing in retail backrooms that if RioCan is unsuccessful in its proposal to build twin towers (19 and 13 floors are proposed) it may redevelop the plaza in a much more modest way. The belief at least among some merchants based on discussion with sources is that RioCan will not settle for a nine-storey compromise. Such a building would still require the expensive foundation work necessary because of the underground river crossing Eglinton and running east through Leaside Instead, this Plan B goes, RioCan would rather spend much less and instead add only a floor or two to the present plaza and have the commercial strip carry on much as it has since it was built in 1952.
