Spring construction start planned for North Bay high-tech mall development.Construction begins next spring on a new North Bay high-tech mall development. Anchored by Photo Metro, a locally based photo and digital imaging graphics company, the proposed 18,000-square-foot strip mall strip mall n. A shopping complex containing a row of various stores, businesses, and restaurants that usually open onto a common parking lot. Noun 1. on Algonquin and Gertrude is half-occupied. At present the strip mall is occupied by three tenants. Brian Tremblay, one of six principal owners at Photo Metro and the project's lead, says the company is seeking to add more, with possibly a video rental franchise and cellular phone and electronics dealers. The new store will quadruple quad·ru·ple adj. 1. Consisting of four parts or members. 2. Four times as much in size, strength, number, or amount. 3. Music Having four beats to the measure. n. the size of their existing Algonquin Avenue location. Construction work involves renovating and expanding a 50-year-old building into a high-tech building of glass and metal cladding The plastic or glass sheath that is fused to and surrounds the core of an optical fiber. The cladding's mirror-like coating keeps the light waves reflected inside the core. The cladding is covered with a protective outer jacket. See fiber optics glossary. for what Tremblay calls a "minimalist min·i·mal·ist n. 1. One who advocates a moderate or conservative approach, action, or policy, as in a political or governmental organization. 2. A practitioner of minimalism. adj. 1. design." The building will feature a three-story spire spire, high, tapering structure crowning a tower and having a general pyramidal outline. The simplest spires were the steeply pitched timber roofs capping Romanesque towers and campaniles. and entry foyer with a vaulted ceiling. The project, scheduled to open in the late summer or early fall of 2006, represents a $2.5 million to $3 million investment for the company. |
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