{"id":9137,"date":"2025-09-03T16:25:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T19:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=9137"},"modified":"2025-09-03T16:27:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T19:27:44","slug":"developer-eric-fry-hasnt-given-up-on-stedmans-building-in-liverpool-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2025\/09\/03\/developer-eric-fry-hasnt-given-up-on-stedmans-building-in-liverpool-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Developer Eric Fry hasn’t given up on Stedman’s building in Liverpool yet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The old Stedman’s building in downtown Liverpool may still be developed into apartments. (Rick Conrad)<\/p><\/div>\n

There may be a second life for the old Stedman\u2019s building on Main Street in Liverpool after all.<\/span><\/p>\n

Region of Queens councillors in July rejected developer Eric Fry\u2019s attempt<\/a> to turn 194 Main St. into 16 apartments.<\/span><\/p>\n

The region\u2019s land use bylaw limits the amount of residential space on the ground floor of of buildings in the downtown commercial zone to a maximum of 50 per cent.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fry applied to amend the bylaw so that he could have only apartments in the building, but council rejected it.<\/span><\/p>\n

He listed the building for sale shortly after council\u2019s decision.<\/span><\/p>\n

But he has since returned with a new proposal<\/a> that would include two commercial units on the ground floor, with the rest of the 30,000-square-foot building devoted to 14 apartments, parking and storage space.<\/span><\/p>\n

That would still require council\u2019s approval and a public hearing.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Fry said he wasn\u2019t ready to comment on his amended proposal to the region\u2019s planning advisory committee.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The committee had a look at the new plan at their August meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n

But Mayor Scott Christian said in a recent interview that the committee wasn\u2019t comfortable making any new recommendations to council.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd so I think just the devils in the detail from a bylaw, from a policy perspective of how do you get to a place where you land in a spot where you’re making sure that you have the right language to facilitate those policy objectives that we want to see, which is again, maintaining the commercial storefronts in the protected commercial zone while allowing flexibility for developers to repurpose other parts of those buildings for residential purposes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Fry said Wednesday that he\u2019s still working with the region on options for the building. He said there may be something new to report in the next few weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Listen to the audio version of this story below<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/stedmanbuildingupdatesept325.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There may be a second life for the old Stedman\u2019s building on Main Street in Liverpool after all. Region of Queens councillors in July rejected developer Eric Fry\u2019s attempt to turn 194 Main St. into 16 apartments. The region\u2019s land use bylaw limits the amount of residential space on the ground floor of of buildings […]<\/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":[3011,2446,3394,3393,1900,855,384,671,39,2987,1460,24,3167,226],"class_list":["post-9137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-194-main-st","tag-apartments","tag-commercial-development","tag-downtown-commercial-zone","tag-downtown-liverpool","tag-eric-fry","tag-housing","tag-land-use-bylaw","tag-liverpool","tag-mayor-scott-christian","tag-planning-advisory-committee","tag-region-of-queens","tag-residential-development","tag-scott-christian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9137","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=9137"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9143,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9137\/revisions\/9143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}