I guess it was inevitable, more condos being built, now on the site of the former Vincelli's Garden Center. Vincelli's will be missed by many people, by regular customers who love gardening and others. News of the closure was in an issue of The Suburban last fall, it was a bit silly saying that the new 250plus unit building would act as a noise barrier for other residences in the area... well, do you want to live in a place beside acres of railway tracks that is advertised as a noise barrier for other people? I can hear trains at night all the way over here on Belmore Avenue between Chester and Cote St-Luc Road, steel wheels on steel tracks. Even I, who love railways, would not want to live a few feet from the source of this noise. And the new condo is out in the middle of proverbial nowhere, not a lot of parking, not many buses, a small strip mall and a daycare across the street, at the end of Westminster Avenue, beside an increasingly noisy rail yard, and now an influx of at least 500 people into the area. I would not be happy about this new condo if I were a resident of that area.
To the Vincelli family, thank you for a hundred years of service to the community. You sold the best plants, including our ginkgo tree that is flourishing on our front lawn where you planted it about ten or eleven years ago. We love that tree. Most of my perennials were purchased from your garden center and they have brought me a lot of happiness to this very day. You don't know me, I was just an anonymous customer, but I loved your garden center.
Photos from last week.
