By Gazette Staff
September 21st, 2025
BURLINGTON, ON
It was about eight years ago when then Ward 1 Councillor Rick Craven told hos constituents that the way to get a supermarket built in the Aldershot community was for youn couples to have more babies – that suggestion didn’ get much in the way of traction.
What has happened in Aldershot is development growth.
One of the first major developments in Aldershot, thousands of people with nothing more than a postage stamp-sized park that is not yet in place.
Plains Road is dotted with six to eight mid-rise buildings.
Starting in the west and working east, you have the huge Adi development referred to as Station West with a population of close to 2000 residents (with next to nothing in the way of playground space – that another story. Then there is
Drive along Plans Road and you see half a dozen five to eight storey structures in place and plans for even bigger developments.
Former Treasure Hunt is scheduled to open as a No Frills in late November.
A former discount store at 1035 Plains is being readied to become a No Frills store; a building permit has been issued. It is close in terms of proximity to an existing Fortinos – the two brands serve different markets; both are owned by Loblaws. The No Frills store is expected to open late in November.
The King Road development that is the early planning stages, will reshape Aldershot and pull the center focal point of Burlington to the West.
The site runs from King Road in the East all the way to the Aldershot GO station in the West
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Location is about as far away from the ADI complex as possible and still be in Aldershot.
What’s the “Why” as to why Loblaw’s is opening a 2nd store sharing the same parking lot, selling the same products at different prices?