In 2015, while serving as Chair of the Port Dalhousie Business Association, I developed a vision for 9 and 15 Lock Street and I set out to build a plan to acquire the properties and redevelop them. 9 Lock Street was the original CIBC bank in Port Dalhousie and was being used as a basic office. 15 Lock Street had been known for a generation as the Lion Tavern, however, it had been vacant and in condemned disrepair for over eight years at the time it was acquired.