More demolition and digging going on... This time it is quite close to home, on Saltaire Road just next to Wycliffe primary school (which is the building on the left of the photo, with Salts Mill chimney behind it). This site was for many years a garage - originally, I think, a petrol station before becoming a car repair shop. It therefore has a lot under the concrete and earth - old pipes and petrol storage tanks. (Apparently a mattress too!) The business moved to a new location locally and the site has been largely unoccupied for a year or two. It has, apparently, now been sold and permission granted for a small supermarket. I did read it would be a Tesco Express. I'm not entirely sure that is progress. It may take business away from the corner shops and small independent businesses in the area. However, I'd better not moan too much. As I enter my dotage (!) it could well be helpful to have a small, reliable supermarket nearby. It will also look better than a deteriorating, vacant lot. And since the road's traffic is bad anyway, I can't see it will have much effect on that.
Must be lots of excitement in that primary school at having "diggers" working in the area.
ReplyDeleteFor many years we had a "Penny Markt"directly across the road. The problems started around 4:30 AM when the delivery lorries offloaded. That was noisy. And on Saturday mornings all hell broke loose on the car park as the customers arrived. One would have thought there was no more food to be had. (Like the UK nowadays??) Anyway, a developer has recently built a modern old people's care home on this site which is now much more peaceful.
ReplyDeleteIt is good to be able to walk to a grocery store.
ReplyDeleteThe nearest work site to home for me is an apartment building going up on a former parking lot several blocks away, but I never notice disruption.
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