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Originally Posted by para transit fellow
To add to the trivia knowledge
Walmart started in the area by building a frozen food distribution center. Target then opened their distribution center. Walmart recently opened a second distribution center in Balzac for their non frozen items. Now Sobeys is about to open the former target site as their Center.
The region is becoming a logistics hub. Costco has a distribution center in Airdrie. And GFS foods created a new warehouse just north of the warehouse built by target.
Strangest coincidence: Meat packing plant is about to reopen and it is just down the road from the new racetrack..
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Funny as it sounds this was sort of predicted to me in 1989, I was golfing in a tourney with a guy who had just sold a bunch of farm land to the province for a proposed highway that would go around the city. He said he had seen early plans on the project and I'll never forget him saying "that garbage land around Balzac will be valuable someday because of this road,
probably industrial because of access to north,east and west from the city."
I often wondered if he was in on the building of projects around there and maybe even the X-Iron mall(which came out of nowhere).