Target shutting down in Canada

[Cliche]

The Balzac one got picked up by Sobey's the last that I remembered.

Also on the way to the former Target warehouse there's a range road that literally passes right by the Walmart one.

[OldDutch]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

Was it Target or WalMart that built a huge distribution centre out in Balzac? If it was Target, what happened to that warehouse? Is it just sitting empty or has someone picked up that property?

Family friend is helping set it up as a Sobey's warehouse. Sobey's is collapsing their supply chain model to fewer large warehouses. /halfcutChristmasdinnerconversation

[Blaster86]

Originally Posted by OldDutch

Family friend is helping set it up as a Sobey's warehouse. Sobey's is collapsing their supply chain model to fewer large warehouses. /halfcutChristmasdinnerconversation

Only slightly more reliable than Orange Julius Guy.

[ranchlandsselling]

Originally Posted by Blaster86

Only slightly more reliable than Orange Julius Guy.

Pretty old (June 2015 I think) and public news.

http://myinforms.com/en-ca/a/1352083...n-balzac-area/

Grocery giant Sobeys is buying the massive 1.3-million-square-foot Target distribution centre in Rocky View County near Balzac, the Herald has learned.

Court documents indicate the deal is worth $50 million and is part of the process of Target Canada divesting its interests as it exits the country. The deal closes some time this month.

David Kalinchuk, economic development manager at Rocky View County, said the county is very happy that Sobeys is going to take over that “great facility.

[para transit fellow]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

Was it Target or WalMart that built a huge distribution centre out in Balzac? If it was Target, what happened to that warehouse? Is it just sitting empty or has someone picked up that property?

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..

[Sr. Mints]

Originally Posted by para transit fellow

Strangest coincidence: Meat packing plant is about to reopen and it is just down the road from the new racetrack..

Motivation.

"Run faster, or get slaughtered and packaged and sold as beef."

[You Need a Thneed]

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..

Wal-Mart, also has the 1.5 million square foot warehouse by Whitehorn Station.

[T@T]

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..

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).