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The iconic tower is all that’s left of the former Knob Hill Farms food terminal in Oshawa. The site will be the future home of a GO station. Photos Glenn Hendry

A quarter-century after the giant Knob Hill Farms grocery store pulled out and more than a decade since Metrolinx pulled in with grand plans to turn it into a GO station, the residents of Oshawa are still waiting to be amazed.

For the first time since crews assembled in June to stabilize and preserve part of the site – the location of an iron factory dating back 128 years – there is finally some tangible progress being made.

The massive building – home to Ontario’s biggest grocery store when it opened in 1983 – has been demolished, with only the iconic tower with the ‘Knob Hill Farms’ logo still standing and rest reduced to giant piles of scrap metal.

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