When they said 'spring,' they may have actually meant spring.

There will be more good news at tomorrow's economic development and planning committee meeting on the downtown revitalization front.
The agenda for tomorrow's meeting includes an update from planning director Maureen Pascoe Merkley on 36-42 King Street West – otherwise known as the former Woolworth's site, the former Liquidation World and the current biggest eyesore in the main core.
The planning director's update involves a site plan submission, including drawings, which means the developers are clearly serious about moving forward with the project (www.recorder.ca/2013/02/12/woolworths-plan-a-go).
The proposal to redevelop the former Woolworth's site got city council's OK in February.
Often, once developers have a council OK in their hands, it takes a bit of time to get to the site plan stage. Depending on the scope of the project, the state of the economy or the priorities of a given owner, it could even take years.
(I'll have more on that front in tomorrow's R&T, as I've been trying, with varying levels of success, to get status updates on some big downtown projects.)
Things appear to be moving faster on the main strip, however.
As we reported last week, the former Nehemiah Seaman House and Old Cornerstone Ice Cream Parlour, which spent more than a decade as a vacant eyesore across from the Brockville Arts Centre, is now getting a much-needed renovation (www.recorder.ca/2013/05/30/reno-for-oldest-stone-building).
And the derelict that once housed Woolworth's is apparently now on the move to becoming a self-service storage facility with four new retail spaces.
The proposal for the old Woolworth's site sparked plenty of discussion online, most of it favourable, when it first came to light in January.
The former Woolworth’s store, which was a Liquidation World before closing in 2004, has been an eyesore ever since, and downtown boosters have long tried to find ways to fill it with a new tenant.
The current owners are an Ottawa-based firm called The Regional Group of Companies, operating under the name King Street West Inc.
The owners plan to turn the vacant site into a combination of four retail stores at the street level and a self-service storage facility on the rest of the first floor and the entire second floor.
It's not exactly a five-star hotel or world-renowned theme park, but then, that's a good thing. We should be tired of overpromises by now; this promise is eminently realistic.
Not to mention a marked improvement from the nearly decade-old stagnant status quo.
Back in February, Pascoe Merkley said the owners planned to move forward with the project in the spring.
Nice to see some things may be running on time.