ELORA – Downtown Elora’s Historic Dalby House at the corner of Geddes and Metcalfe streets will be converted into apartments and retail space.
photo by Austin Cardinell
The building originally was a hotel business started back in 1862. More recently the building housed medical offices.
Stephanie Maye, Co-Founder & Broker of Record of Maven Commercial Real Estate based out of Barrie worked with the new owner in 2019 to acquire the building. She says when they picked up the building, the plan was to leave it as office space, but when the pandemic hit they realized many people were more comfortable working from home.
She says her client decided that the building would be better integrated with the rest of Downtown Elora with retail space.
Maye says there will be two retail sections on the ground floor, with an opportunity to expand down into the basement, and the upper floors will be turned into apartments. “It’s a flat iron design, which means that it’s a triangular building, it has two street frontages, the one side on Metcalfe Street and the other on Geddes Street.”
The second and third floors have been converted into apartments with two two-bedrooms, one single-bedroom, and a studio on each floor. Maye says they are expected to be finished in December.
As for filling the retail spaces, she says “that we could see happening rather soon.”
More information can be found at dalbyhouse.ca
