[Fairfield] 325 Cook St./ Food Court Expansion | Stalled
#181
Posted 16 December 2011 - 01:50 PM
Know it all.
Citified.ca is Victoria's most comprehensive research resource for new-build homes and commercial spaces.
#182
Posted 16 December 2011 - 01:57 PM
#183
Posted 30 August 2013 - 07:01 PM
So the lot will sit empty. That giant hole at the end of the lot is still there still apparently laced with toxic sludge from the old dry cleaner. I am concerned that now that this toxic waste has been exposed to direct rainwater that it has now spread.
From what I have observed, the owner has handled this in such a discraceful way, the city should be doing something about this.
#184
Posted 30 August 2013 - 10:26 PM
#185
Posted 01 September 2013 - 08:52 AM
#186
Posted 01 September 2013 - 08:55 AM
#187
Posted 01 September 2013 - 09:11 AM
Know it all.
Citified.ca is Victoria's most comprehensive research resource for new-build homes and commercial spaces.
#188
Posted 01 September 2013 - 10:20 AM
#189
Posted 01 September 2013 - 10:21 AM
#190
Posted 03 September 2013 - 02:06 PM
#191
Posted 03 September 2013 - 02:46 PM
#192
Posted 03 September 2013 - 03:38 PM
I hope to make it to the info session.
#193
Posted 12 November 2013 - 08:18 AM
http://www.timescolo...leaner-1.692730Low contamination risk found in vicinity of former Cook Street Village dry cleaner
Amy Smart / Times Colonist
November 11, 2013 07:49 PM
#194
Posted 12 November 2013 - 09:17 AM
"Residents shouldn’t be concerned for their health because they don’t have direct contact with the groundwater, she said."aha I finally found this thread
http://www.timescolo...leaner-1.692730
Even so, I'd not be eating veggies grown within 100 yards of that site (in the absence of soil tests).
jbw
#195
Posted 12 November 2013 - 09:23 AM
aha I finally found this thread
http://www.timescolo...leaner-1.692730
I'm guessing Mark never tested properly prior to buying that property...when the work started contamination was found and it stalled out. Drycleaning contamination depending on how bad the plume of PERC is can be as little as a couple hundred grand to as much as millions of dollars. Pretty bad.
As a residential purchaser I always tell friends and family to be very careful purchasing in the vicinity of a drycleaner as you never know how far it may have travelled, especially if that dry-cleaner is no longer in operation. It pays to do some due diligence.
#196
Posted 12 November 2013 - 02:49 PM
#197
Posted 12 November 2013 - 03:12 PM
I'm guessing Mark never tested properly prior to buying that property...[...]
As a residential purchaser I always tell friends and family to be very careful purchasing in the vicinity of a drycleaner as you never know how far it may have travelled, especially if that dry-cleaner is no longer in operation. It pays to do some due diligence.
The problem is that the dry cleaner had long gone by the time he was house shopping. I doubt anyone buying in a mixed use area has their soil tested. It would have been great if the Realtor clued in that there used to be a dry cleaner next door, but the Realtor might not have known the history of that site. It's safe to say that any dry cleaner is going to be contaminated and any gas station is going to be contaminated and they had a lot more back in the old days than they do now.
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#198
Posted 12 November 2013 - 03:22 PM
I'd say that 'due diligence' (by the Realtor, by the Buyer) ought to include peeking at a public library street directory from a decade or two ago, to see just what was operating at the location [if you're too shy to ask long established neighbours, that is]. If the street address were the same and known, a quick google might also show who was setup there. eg. http://www.cylex.ca/...s-12527264.htmlIt would have been great if the Realtor clued in that there used to be a dry cleaner next door, but the Realtor might not have known the history of that site. It's safe to say that any dry cleaner is going to be contaminated and any gas station is going to be contaminated and they had a lot more back in the old days than they do now.
jbw
#199
Posted 12 November 2013 - 03:38 PM
The problem is that the dry cleaner had long gone by the time he was house shopping. I doubt anyone buying in a mixed use area has their soil tested. It would have been great if the Realtor clued in that there used to be a dry cleaner next door, but the Realtor might not have known the history of that site. It's safe to say that any dry cleaner is going to be contaminated and any gas station is going to be contaminated and they had a lot more back in the old days than they do now.
In my world its called due diligence. If you are buying in an area that neighbours a commercial area you might want to consider investigating at least what you could be up against. I know the dry-cleaner has been long gone, but it doesn't take much to figure one used to be there. It doesn't take much to understand that the area around there has a lot of underground water movement and it doesn't take one much to figure out that a perfectly reasonable building has stalled out.
Call me OCD but before I buy any property I have a checklist that I review in order to avoid purchasing something I'll later regret, or at least doing everything I can to avoid that.
#200
Posted 12 November 2013 - 06:09 PM
***en has since sold it to someone else.
Use the page links at the lower-left to go to the next page to read additional posts.
0 user(s) are reading this topic
0 members, 0 guests, 0 anonymous users