Shoppers Drug Mart Expansion Controversy
In 2011, the Shoppers Drug Mart at 43 Osborne Street proposed a plan to expand which involved the purchase and takeover of the neighbouring building that housed Movie Village and Vi-Ann, a local Vietnamese restaurant. The proposal would increase the 10,048-square-foot (933.5 m2) store's footprint by more than double.
The city board approved the purchase in December 2011. Area residents raised a campaign to appeal and block the purchase, collecting over 4,000 signatures, but the purchase plans were upheld by a city appeals committee in February 2012.
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