neighborhood plaza call "Station Street Junction" scheduled for occupancy lat fall of 2012. With the train station across the street and the ever increasing traffic counts, it will be a great location for your business. The name 'Station Street Junction' originated from the location of the development at 237 Station Street, also referencing the railway theme which carries through from the railroad
ers club which was once housed in the building, the proximity to the Belleville train station and as a place where railroad lines and streets meet or diverge. The history of the property goes back to 1863 when William Docter came to Belleville, from England, to manage James Roy's brewery. He soon opened a store on Station Street which later he expanded into a Hotel, Thus 'Doctor's Hotel'. Docter's establishment to the railroad made it a prime location for train drivers to gain some well earned sleep. When William Docter died in 1903, his wife Ann ran the business untill their daughter Cecilia Breins and her husband took over. Barney Parson's and three partners purchased the Doc's Hotel in the mid-1950's. Between the time Parson's purchased the property until the time he sold it in 1976 it was as much a Hotel as it was a bar housing between 22 and 24 rooms. In 1976 the 4 partner's sold the establishment to Albert Lentini who ran it for a number of years. The Docter's Hotel was later purchased in January 1988 and a planned expansion made it into the second largest bar in Ontario. The Bar was intermittently closed between 1991 and 1992 before it was purchased by Ron Baker and Don Rout who ran the business until 2003. For the past several years the bar has been the centre of controversy, when the Moniz family from Quebec planned to re-open it as a strip club, Portugese russian restaurant and hotel. The plans were "thwarted" by Belleville's City Council who passed and interim by-law limiting the number of strip clubs in Belleville to two. Jamie Troke and Pat Burke purchased the site in the fall of 2010, then soon began work on the renewal/deconstruction process for the site.
