The now vacant bank building at 180 Laird Drive across the street from the Smart Centre is for sale. If you’re in the market for a fairly spacious 1930s building with 20-odd parking spaces (nice) this one is listed for $2,000,000. It has two floors with somewhat less than 3,000 square feet downstairs and about 2,000 square feet upstairs. Some planners have noted that if this building were removed it would permit a much smoother flow of traffic through the Laird, McRae, Wicksteed intersection. Over the front door the property comes with a very nice coat of arms in concrete of the now defunct Imperial Bank of Canada Imperial and the Canadian Bank of Commerce merged in 1960.
