Here’s a reminder of just how many grocery outlets we will have in South Bayview. Target stores will buy their grocery products from Sobeys when the American retailer opens its big box stores next year. As is known, one of the first of the Zellers location to be converted to a Target is on Overlea Blvd. No doubt Target will be looking to divert some grocery business from the Loblaws on Redway Drive to its own store on Overlea. We also can look forward to a new Longos store in the Leaside Village on Laird Drive when it opens and, if approved, a Loblaws in the development under application for 1860 Bayview at Broadway. Target said it will open 125 to 135 stores in Canada, beginning in March 2013 with most of the locations opening that year. Target also announced that another 84 leases it have been acquired from Zellers. Target said in May it had selected an initial group of 105 Zellers leases, one of which was Overlea Blvd.
