They also look in existing neighbourhoods to figure out who is serving the local area. Big companies use this information to better understand their clientele and where they’re coming from. There have been many studies over the years about how companies like Tim Hortons and Starbucks use extensive demographic data. It was almost as if Starbucks knew we – and 100 other young people- were coming. We had purchased it in 2005 and waited for it to be built. Beth and I moved into our first home, a 690 sf condo on Sorauren Ave. But there was a thriving Starbucks and young families moving into the neighbourhood. The relationship between coffee, gentrification and home pricesīy 2007, there was still no Tim Hortons near me. A neighbourhood who resisted gentrification for so many years was going to be gentrified, whether they liked it or not. Unsure of whether I was about to explode with glee or crumble in disappointment, I realized it was going to happen. In the window was a Starbucks logo with “coming soon”. As we walked north on Roncesvalles to where it meets Dundas St, in what was formerly a Bank of Montreal, I stopped.
One weekend morning in 2004, Beth and I were on a walk to the Dundas West subway station. It reminds me very much of the Exhibition Park neighbourhood in Guelph today. They were ok without a major coffee shop or big box store. Roncesvalles was a neighbourhood that tried hard to keep it’s little town of it’s own very insular. And that was OK, because Roncesvalles had it’s own independent coffee shops, like Cherry Bomb. There was an LCBO and Beer Store, but even those were outdated 1970’s layouts. The closest Starbucks or Tim Hortons near me was probably a 30 minute walk in any direction.
TIM HORTONS NEAR ME FULL
On Roncesvalles Ave it was full of mom and pop shops, many of them Polish bakeries or delis. She’d see me and yell out “Eric!!!” every time, even though I assured her I wasn’t Eric. She’d be smoking what seemed like an entire pack per ten minutes. This included a half way house almost across the street from my friend and I.įor perspective, a lady who lived there would pace up and down the street all day and night. A lot of low income high and low-rise apartments. Which in retrospect, was quite likely a front for something else! From seedy to swankyįor decades, Parkdale was a rough spot. There was definitely no Tim Hortons near me, it was only a run down Coffee Time. This isnbecause it sounded sexier than what it really was- Parkdale.
We called our little upper apartment on Callander St “Roncesvalles”. In 1998, I moved from Guelph to the Roncesvalles neighbourhood in Toronto. Ryan writes a personal story about how something seemingly small like a new Tim Hortons near me influences real estate prices. This week, we take a step back from educational real estate posts.
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