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The Loblaw Groceterias Building
Demolished Commercial in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jun 18 2013
| Recent status | Demolished |
| Location # | 8094 |
The Loblaw Groceterias Building has sat vacant for a decade.
A great article and historic pictures can be found here: http://heritagetoronto.org/the-loblaw-groceterias-building/
An exterior video from 2011 can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wDrKM4_kQQA
Lots to explore here. :)
UPDATE JUNE 27/13 : The large equipment bashes at the lower end of the building every hour during the day. What they leave at 5:00 everyday is a fascination of concrete guts of this building sprawled out and a giant mouth of POE. Straight into the basement can be seen. Th entry point to the main building comes closer and closer every day. Pockets of work go on inside. Workers reclaim brick from the outside. Something will be salvaged here, perhaps locked right back up for years of re planing once they isolate that big beautiful main building. Everybody has there own idea, from the gardener to the foreman, but nobody knows for sure. It will be a muse for the next couple weeks to say the least.
Today's visit discovered more rooms, more things, and even chilled on the roof with bumper to bumper traffic on the gardener close enough to make out faces. But still no damn bowling lane :(
Update 03/07/13: Inside source now says that this entire building will be demolished for more condos :( Apparently if they reclaim enough of the brick, they can somehow dodge the heritage laws. I think the condo corporations are our new dictators.
Update 14/08/13: Demolition has stopped and the building has been sealed and fortified by solid metal to all of the previous construction POE's. Great news for the time being for the building, not so great news for further exploration.
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@Darko, every shots a postcard. Good job for 7 min. and nice talking to you.
Wow, great shots Darkman, you hit some good spots on your TO visit. I had also assumed there was a reason why this place had not been posted. I expect we'll see Phrenzee's pics from visits in 1989 and 2003 in about .......3.......2.........1...........
If the file data isn't tricking me, the gallery was photographed in 7 minutes and the experience was heart pumping as hell. :) :) :)
Really? Wow, I wouldn't have thought that given the status of the place but it makes sense. I've seen one other interior gallery which showed some overhead horrid fluorescent lights on in other rooms, but that could have been some time ago.
F.o.s. there are no lights other than the ones in the top staircase pic.....it is not the place to get stuck after dark. Some of the floors are black as night even in the afternoon. Anyone seriously considering should should PM me.
@superss I have a feeling the place is mostly locked tight and actively guarded given all the lights on in the place and absence of graffiti...but one can dream lol!
I think this will become quite popular within our group. The yuppies call it an eyesore, but I think the building looks gorgeous in that condo world infecting the area.
You would never guess this was a rushed visit...great composition throughout your gallery! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you sir! Yes i read somewhere online that it was once an "urban exploration playground" but as far as i have been watching it there was never a chance getting in, until yesterday. ;)
This is an awesome place, every time I pass by it I remind myself that I MUST explore it. But whenever I'm in the area I have a car full of people that would lose their mind if I stopped. Searching the database I could not believe nobody had explored it yet. It even looks great just from the outside, the interiors are a super bonus. Great job DARKMAN.
Man I wish I could have spent a day in there. It was a now or never :( I'm sure I didn't see everything, it's not an easy place to cover. As I said very fast visit. ;)
Very cool stuff D! Did you happen to visit the rec room with the bowling alley mentioned in that article?
8 years ago
Half of the building is a pile of rubble now, the other half is gutted and held up by temporary supports.