{"id":8533,"date":"2025-04-01T17:12:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T20:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=8533"},"modified":"2025-04-01T17:12:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T20:12:12","slug":"new-apartments-planned-for-downtown-liverpool-in-old-stedmans-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2025\/04\/01\/new-apartments-planned-for-downtown-liverpool-in-old-stedmans-building\/","title":{"rendered":"New apartments planned for downtown Liverpool in old Stedmans building"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eric and Dawn Fry are hoping to build 16 apartments in the old Stedmans building on Main Street in Liverpool. (Rick Conrad)<\/p><\/div>\n

A developer is hoping to turn an old storefront on Liverpool\u2019s Main Street into apartments.<\/span><\/p>\n

Eric and Dawn Fry of Fall River bought 194 Main St. in January and hope to turn it into 16 one-bedroom and two-bedroom rental units.<\/span><\/p>\n

Eric Fry<\/a> told QCCR that they applied a few weeks ago to the Region of Queens to allow for apartments on the ground floor. The region\u2019s land use bylaws permit residential units on Main Street only in buildings with a commercial storefront.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe would rather see it as 100 per cent residential because there\u2019s more of a need in that area for residential than for additional commercial space because there’s a fair amount of vacant commercial space on Main Street.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The property is known locally as the old Stedmans building. Before it was bought by the Frys, it sat vacant for a few years and was heavily damaged by extreme weather. And before that, it housed a dollar store and office space on the ground floor.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fry said Tuesday that they\u2019re also planning indoor parking, which would be accessed on the Water Street side at the back of the building.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re hoping that there won\u2019t be any or too much opposition to what we\u2019re trying to do because we know that there\u2019s a need for housing there and I think this would lend itself nicely. … <\/span>So it could be a pretty desirable development when it\u2019s completed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Tenants recently moved into the couple\u2019s other development, The Falls in Milton<\/a>, located on the Mersey River. That building is full and targeted to people 55 and over.<\/span><\/p>\n

This new development would be marketed to a more mixed demographic. Fry says he hopes to attract health care or other professionals. And two or three units could qualify as affordable housing.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Viewpoint, the 30,000-square-foot building sold for $235,000 after almost a year on the market. Fry said it\u2019s too early to estimate the budget for the project or what the rents will be.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe two criteria that I typically use are location and potential. And I think that\u2019s got both in spades. It\u2019s very central and a lot of potential. It took a little creativity with our design team and our construction manager to work through a feasible plan, in order to make it all accessible. We\u2019ll be adding windows and skylights for the upper units. We think it\u2019s really going to begin to transform Main Street, so we\u2019re excited about it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

They\u2019re working with a partner on the project and have named their company SDL Developments, as an homage to the building\u2019s former life as a Stedmans department store.<\/span><\/p>\n

While they wait to see how their application goes with the municipality, Fry said workers have been cleaning up debris inside the building.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He said he and his wife wanted to invest in the community after they bought a cottage in Port Mouton in 2015 and fell in love with the area.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not trying to disrupt anything or upset the apple cart. My wife and I have lots of great relationships in Liverpool and we’ve gotten to know a lot of folks in the municipality and we love it. What we\u2019ve done with The Falls in Milton would be frankly representative of the type of approach we would take, very open and communicative with the public and a quality product that people can be proud to call home.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Fry said that if their application with the municipality succeeds, they hope to begin construction by the end of June.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Email: rickconradqccr@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Listen to the audio version of the story below<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/stedmansmainstreet2april125.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A developer is hoping to turn an old storefront on Liverpool\u2019s Main Street into apartments. Eric and Dawn Fry of Fall River bought 194 Main St. in January and hope to turn it into 16 one-bedroom and two-bedroom rental units. Eric Fry told QCCR that they applied a few weeks ago to the Region of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[3011,2446,954,378,3013,855,384,671,39,1486,24,3012,3014],"class_list":["post-8533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-194-main-st","tag-apartments","tag-dawn-fry","tag-development","tag-downtown-development","tag-eric-fry","tag-housing","tag-land-use-bylaw","tag-liverpool","tag-main-street","tag-region-of-queens","tag-residential","tag-stedmans-building"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8536,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8533\/revisions\/8536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}