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207 WESTON RD – old Phantom Industries Inc plant being converted for Self Storage business

 

 

 

Phantom Industries Inc. a long time Junction business manufacturing pantyhose, hosiery, knee-hi’s, tights, leotards, bodywear fashions, terry sportswear, support stockings, closed and the modern glass walled front building is now being converted to a self storage use.

Alterations are to include extending the internal mezzanine with the addition of vehicle drive thru ability.

They are to place two static , illuminated wall signs at the north-westerly elevation of the building in conjunction with an existing self storage business operating on the property. All Canadian Self Storage.

Self storage can be one the highest income choices right now producing some $33.oo per square food.

About Phantom Industries Inc…

at one time,

Phantom Facts

  • 1 out of every 2 branded hose in Canada is made by Phantom
  • Silks is the #1 hosiery brand in Canadian department stores
  • Phantom is one of the largest hosiery manufacturer in North America
  • Phantom is a wholly-owned, privately held Canadian company
  • Phantom is the premier supplier for private label hosiery programs in Canada

The companies products could/can? be found at

  • The Bay
  • Sears
  • Walmart
  • Zellers
and a host of specilaity stores.

From the companies now gone website:

Since 1956, we have built a reputation on superior product
quality and renowned for our unparalleled product assortment
and superior quality products, we pride ourselves in bringing you
leading edge styles and innovations in women’s hosiery.

Over 190,000 sq.ft. of space houses our manufacturing
facilities in Toronto, Ontario. Over 400 employees help turn
our vision into a reality.

An image from their site history page.

 

An image of the operating factory (date unknown)

 

 

Family ownership has always motivated
strong research and development. Further research and
development is the key to continuing to bring you the products
that suit your needs.

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Stockyards mall adds store names to be present to hoardings

The mall site which doing below ground waterworks right now, as added retailers to it hoardings.

Location:Orman Ave,Toronto,Canada

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Construction continues on the St Helen’s Meats facility, great to see this company never stop growing

This section of there plant, located next to their retail outlets us moving along at a breakneck speed.

Location:Orman Ave,Toronto,Canada

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Dystonia foundation renames annual fundraiser to honour Saundercook family

Reposted from insidetoronto.com

Dystonia foundation renames annual fundraiser to honour Saundercook family

In honour of a “courageous” individual and his “trailblazing” family, the Dystonia Medical Research Foundation Canada (DMRF Canada) has re-christened the name of its annual run/walk to Chuck’s Run.
Chuck Saundercook passed away from Dystonia-related complications in 1978 at the age of 17. His family, including his brother, former Parkdale-High Park Councillor Bill Saundercook, have been leaders in founding and fostering Dystonia research in Toronto.

“Not only have the Saundercooks raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for research, but their efforts have improved the lives of thousands of Torontonians who suffer from this life-altering movement disorder,” said Diane Gillespie, executive director of DMRF Canada in a statement. “Their outstanding commitment – which spans more than 30 years – is a testament to the power we all have to make a difference.”

The Saundercook family founded the Toronto Chapter of DMRF Canada, established the original Toronto Walk for Dystonia and organized and hosted an annual 24-hour swim-a-thon.

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Television rental in the Junction from the Channel Zero building


2844 Dundas St. West was for decades a furniture and electronics retailer named Sanders, and very early in the life of television, rented televisions to people in the Junction.

Using the above pictured box into which the television would be plugged. Quarters could be fed in to buy viewing time. The blog author received this box when Sanders had a warehouse at Keele Centre and his studio was a few units down the way.

Two interesting items about a this are,

The building is now home to a television station, and we now rent cable access to television rather than the television itself.

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What can you get down a greater Junction area laneway – well it’s getting bigger

Junction lane-ways can be dismaying for those that use them.

It can be people who use them simply as alternative roads. Or the difficult passages that need to planned and inched though when people park there cars wrongly.

In the last decade it was been the parallel packers who park at the edge of allowed property location.

Yet on a good day a fire truck or now a cement mixer can get down the lane

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Police pursuit ends in Junction

Police officer has minor injuries, and cruiser was damaged in what being reported in the big media as a west end car chase.

Presently there is a silver van bring watched over by police at the end of Boler St which dead ends north of Maria St in the Junction.

The van is facing north west and appears from the top of Boler St to have contacted the Canadian Pacific Railway Fence.

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Call for Volunteers – The Junction Farmers’ Market is set to start on June 2nd, 2012!


Link to the markets site.

Pls remember to uses www.junctioneer.ca to visit this blog.

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Ward 18 park activities reported the Greenhere newsletter

href=”http://www.greenhere.ca”>Link to Greenhere website

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Great private lane block paving, great if all the lanes in Junction were paved this way.

The building owner at 2968 Dundas Street West, has paved the rear of the building property and the side private Drive using a solider pattern.

Very nice, if only the other lanes could be paved this way.

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Dream Bakery for the Junction

here goes…

While we have a Vegan bakery for which the community is so lucky, there are many of us that are not so inclined to vegetarianism nor always super healthy treats or breads.   We have lots of emtpy store fronts in the Junction even whole  buildings, many of which would be great spaces for producing   beautiful, naturally leavened whole-grain bread, delectable seasonal preserves, and granola for all of us (ok not this author) crunchy-granola types! say one with a milling room where we can purchase fresh milled flour own flour from local grower farms. Plus, a wood-fired brick oven that can also be fired with biomass briquettes manufactured from spent grain from one of the local micro brewery’s that are opening in the area, such as the Indie Ale House.

Operationally for success this would probably have to be a licensed  commercial kitchen  so the operator will be sell at farmers markets, wholesale to restaurants and grocery stores.

Please do come!

Here are some facebook links to the type of foodie establishments that would be great , these are example from the Chicago area

 

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Businessweek magazine has ranked the vertical farm as one of its top 20 businesses of the future

Pasted below is a great article about the conversion of a pld industrial plant into a thriving farm Enterprise.  The building looks like so many in the Greater Junction Area.

 

…and leading the charge is The Plant in Chicago, which opened this summer.

Created by entrepreneur John Edel, this former meatpacking factory is now home to a nascent fish and vegetable farm, along with several small food businesses. It’s an innovative solution, based on a principle known as aquaponics, where everything exists to work together. Tilapia fish waste is high in ammonia which nourishes the plants; the plants clean the water, which can then be returned to the fish. The businesses within the building work in symbiosis, too. So, waste from the brewery provides the perfect growing material for the mushroom farm.

All the building’s energy needs will come from an onsite biodigester, producing methane to fuel a combined heat and power plant. The digester will consume all the building’s food waste, as well as taking some from neighbouring food manufacturers. The Plant was recently awarded a $1.5 million grant from the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to develop the energy system.

Currently in phase one of development, The Plant plans to be fully operational, with a net income of $300,000 from food sales and business rents, by 2016.

The technology was developed with the aid of students at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and their professor, Blake Davis. He was particularly attracted to Edel’s entrepreneurial approach. “I agreed to work with John because he indicated that he wanted to build a profitable vertical farming business,” he said. “Representatives of The Plant have visited almost all of the vertical farming enterprises within 500 miles, and the vast majority of these do not have a sustainable business model. They are either n

 

The brainchild of local sustainability groups URBED and Creative Concern, it aims to produce lettuce, tomatoes, vegetables and even chickens, bees and fish in time for the city’s International Festival in 2013. T

 

link to Plant web site 

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