{"id":892488,"date":"2026-09-12T02:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T02:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/892488\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T02:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T02:40:14","slug":"new-shoppers-drug-mart-planned-for-trunk-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/892488\/","title":{"rendered":"New Shoppers Drug Mart planned for Trunk Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new drug store will be in the rapidly growing commercial district where Trunk Road intersects with South Market Street<\/p>\n<p>Sault Ste. Marie is about to get another Shoppers Drug Mart location.<\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s building staff report a building permit was issued in August for a $3.25-million building shell at 523 Trunk Rd.<\/p>\n<p>That price doesn\u2019t include any additional costs for interior tenant fit-up.<\/p>\n<p>The Sault\u2019s newest drug store will be in the rapidly growing commercial district where Trunk Road intersects with South Market Street.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the city\u2019s committee of adjustment approved a minor variance to allow a smaller-than-usual easterly rear yard for a new 1,598-square-metre single-storey commercial building on the property.<\/p>\n<p>The variance was approved to accommodate an\u00a0irregular rear lot line.<\/p>\n<p>The Shoppers project\u00a0was one of 117 building permits issued in August, representing a total value of $16.8 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new drug store will be in the rapidly growing commercial district where Trunk Road intersects with South&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":892489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,309177],"class_list":["post-892488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-shoppers-drug-martbuilding-permits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=892488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/892489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}