Although the company won’t confirm, regional councillors are openly speaking about Sobey’s plans in Dartmouth: as owners of Penhorn Mall, they intend to move the nearby grocery store up to the space vacated by Wal-mart, tear down the rest of the mall and rebuild it in big-box fashion—just what we need, more soul-sucking bix boxes in Dartmouth. Also, Sobey’s is looking to fill the abandoned Canadian Tire space over on Tacoma Drive with one of its grocery stores.
This article appears in May 15-21, 2008.
Tim, get a friggin’ clue: they already publicly announced what they plan to do and you ought to love it. They want to move the Sobeys to a new building on the Walmart site, tear down almost all of the mall except for Sears, build a little connecting strip of stores between the Sobeys and Sears, and turn the other 20-odd acres of the place into a residential development with a new and improved transit terminal. You ought to be jumping for joy.