KFC lot at Merton-Mt Pleasant zoned for condos

The Kentucky Fried Chicken property at Mt. Pleasant Rd. and Balliol Street is named in a Post Magazine story as land zoned “multi-use” — a designation that permits condominium development. The article’s author, Angela Hennessy, says such construction would represent unprecedented development for the area. This might be truer of the east side than the west, where a number of fairly high condominiums and seniors homes stretch north from Merton Street to Davisville Ave. The address is 415 Mount Pleasant Rd. and is owned by Plazacorp Retail Properties. It is 6,000 square feet in size and as such is not very big, a point made by Greg Russell, president of the South Eglinton residents and Ratepayers Association (SERRA).  The land sits north of another somewhat nondescript parcel, however, the Hudson Plumbing Supply firm.