What are they building on 130th Ave SE?

[KTrain]

Anyone living or working in the 130th Ave area of the SE know what they're building next to the Safeway?

Looks like more shops of some sort. I'm hoping it's not more residential as the area is packed already.

[dre]

Apparently it will be a Lowe's.

[Barnes]

Frenchmaid SuperCentre.

[Jayems]

Damn. I thought it was a movie theatre.

[Old Yeller]

Yeah it's a Lowe's, right across the street from Home Depot. Price matching/beating ahoy!

[burn_this_city]

Originally Posted by Jayems

Damn. I thought it was a movie theatre.

The theater was supposed to be built between deerfoot and crappy tire.

[dre]

Originally Posted by Jayems

Damn. I thought it was a movie theatre.

I heard that they tried three times to get a theater there. But nope, we need a building center across from another building center.

[STeeLy]

BTW, if you go further down the deerfoot, there looks like something going on when you get to the bridge that's at the City Limits... Looks like they're flattening the ground and there were tractors sitting around.

any idea what's happening there?

[Locke]

Originally Posted by dre

I heard that they tried three times to get a theater there. But nope, we need a building center across from another building center.

Did they buy their building supplies from the building supplier in order to build their building supplier?

[Bertuzzied]

What a stupid name for a store. I will never buy something from Lowes.

[Barnes]

I am excited that there will be some competition especially from a newcomer to this market. Home Depot has crap lumber.

[Ducay]

Originally Posted by STeeLy

Looks like they're flattening the ground and there were tractors sitting around.

any idea what's happening there?

Hmmmm, not sure what happened to the tractor......I thought it was supposed to pull out the Dodge....and the Ford?


Or maybe its that South Hospital? *






*Total guess, I avoid the east side of the city like the plague

[Shazam]

Originally Posted by Barnes

I am excited that there will be some competition especially from a newcomer to this market. Home Depot has crap lumber.

Lowes >>>>> HD. HD sucks. The only good thing they sell are faucets.

[Bigtime]

Originally Posted by dre

I heard that they tried three times to get a theater there. But nope, we need a building center across from another building center.

That has been Lowes strategy against Home Depot in the US, and it has served them very well. I believe they even managed to get a store across the street from the original Home Depot location.

[Bigtime]

Originally Posted by Ducay

Or maybe its that South Hospital? *

*Total guess, I avoid the east side of the city like the plague

The south hospital is already well above ground, and is at its final height in most places. It could be site prep for the neighbourhoods that will surround it.

[KTrain]

Lowes is disappointing. I was hoping for a movie theatre as well.

I heard a Target might be going in by the south hospital.

[Raekwon]

Originally Posted by STeeLy

BTW, if you go further down the deerfoot, there looks like something going on when you get to the bridge that's at the City Limits... Looks like they're flattening the ground and there were tractors sitting around.

any idea what's happening there?

I know just north of that bridge they are working on the ring road

[FlamesKickAss]

damn i had heard it was a movie theatre as well. My dad in the states will drive the extra distance to go to lowes over HD.

[Madman]

Originally Posted by STeeLy

BTW, if you go further down the deerfoot, there looks like something going on when you get to the bridge that's at the City Limits... Looks like they're flattening the ground and there were tractors sitting around.

any idea what's happening there?

On the west side of Deerfoot is all Cranston....even down low in the river valley. There will be higher end houses on that low portion with a "no curb" design to them to allow for ditches and culverts everywhere.

They are also running services under Deerfoot from Cranston to Seton with a big horizontal drill, so you'll see equipment on both sides of Deerfoot there.

[Ducay]

Originally Posted by Madman

They are also running services under Deerfoot from Cranston to Seton with a big horizontal drill, so you'll see equipment on both sides of Deerfoot there.

Ya, I hear that Burns Slant Drilling Co. got that contract even without bidding or formal approval from the city or school board.