Now that the Campbell’s Soup Factory lands in Mimico have been flattened and its smokestack demolished, residents are preparing for a fight.

A Go Fund Me campaign has been launched to raise funds to pay for an appeal that has been submitted to the Committee of Adjustment, said organizer Zsuzsanna Lichner.

“The Campbell Soup Factory in Mimico has been closed down,” Lichner wrote on the Go Fund Me Page. “It is turning into a last-mile distribution center that would operate 24/7 at 86 loading bays for heavy-load trucks.”

She said “residents were not given a chance to express their views about the development that is only a few feet away from their house and school.”

The area resident said a Committee of Adjustment has approved 242 extra parking spots and a parking entrance that abuts a residential street.

“We believe that will lead to a major disruption of the local traffic and negatively impact road safety,” Lichner wrote. “We are raising funds to pay for the appeal that that has been submitted.”

The factory, which opened in 1931, has been flattened to make way for what will be a “last mile” distribution centre.”

Campbell’s 1931 and 1941 facades will be retained. One that was built in 1944 but no longer exists, will be rebuilt.

The factory operated from 1913 to 2014 and at one time employed generations of local residents and purchased crops from area farms.

Proposed by QuadReal Property Group, with Weston Consulting as planners and designed by Ware Malcomb Architecture, the project consists of three one-storey industrial warehouse buildings that will replace eight smaller industrial buildings that collectively served as the former Campbell Soup Factory.

No date has been set for a hearing.

So far just more than $100 have been raised in the campaign, which has a goal of $300.