By Pepper Parr
October 2, 2017
BURLINGTON, ON
The Burlington that many people want to stay just the same as it was thirty years ago have just a few days to enjoy an ice cream cone at Easterbrook’s on New Street.
Word from staff at the location is that the property has been sold.
Easterbrook’s as it is today.
Someone will be getting bold and asking the city to give them height and density the city needs.
Times they are a changing indeed.
This is what the city planners think the Guelph Line – New Street plaza COULD look like.
This is what the Guelph Line – New Street plaza looks like today.
The Guelph Line New Street location isn’t part of one of the mobility hubs but the planners have high hopes and great expectations that something van be done with the plaza on the east side of Guelph Line – adding residential to the mix of that commercial site.
I’m quite sure I remember it being the Red Barn when I moved back to Burlington in 2004
I used to go to it 30 years ago when it was called Jumbos. Believe me, it was not a new structure back then. I have no idea when the building was erected, but it was way before my time.
How many remember Kirby’s gas station and general store/variety on the North West corner of Guelph and New Street or Gibson’s Grocery Store on the South West corner? Both long, long gone.
Another unique piece of Burlington’s character will soon be gone replaced by a stale, dull, monotonous and architecturally unenlightening piece of mundanity. Sad!
Well, Easterbrooks might have been in this building for 30 years, but it was the Red Barn 17 years earlier.
And a darn shame since they just recently started accepting debit 🙂
Easterbrook’s is not in the plaza on the east side of Guelph Line on New.
It’s in the smaller plaza on the west side, north side of New. It’s next to the gas station that’s on the corner.
Editor’s gratitude – Of course it is on the west side of Guelph Line and on the North side of New Street. And for those who question to 30 years mention – that’s what’ written on the front of the building on the North side of New Street west of Guelph Line.
Your opening sentence is inaccurate. In the 1930s, there were homes along that stretch of New Street. The structure that houses Easterbrook’s came much later (late 60s?). It was originally a fast food restaurant called The Red Barn – hence the shape of the building.
Editor’s note. The words on the front of the building do say 30 years.
Guess they lied to us. They A R E going to rebuild all of Burlington not just some of it.
So long old Red Barn building. Not too many left, north and south.