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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse
Halifax is lacking a downtown department store, whether it be a full size Bay, Simons, Holt's type store or a smaller discount store like Giant Tiger. We only have speciality boutique-type shops, grocery stores, and pharmacies. I'd be happy if we just had one downtown Giant Tiger honestly.
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There's Mills Brothers and a Miniso but this is generally true.
It's not something people would notice as much today but Hudson's Bay was conspicuously absent from downtown Halifax in 1950. I don't think they came to the region until the 1960's or so, and when they came they opened suburban stores. Quebec City also does not have a downtown location and I am not sure they ever had one, but they do have Simons (it started there).
The single Bay location left in metro Halifax is a depressing run down suburban location in Dartmouth, not even in the nicest mall in the city, let alone downtown.
I would not be surprised if Halifax ends up with a Simons soon.
Other missing Halifax stuff:
- Stadium with more than 10,000 permanent seats
- Downtown train station or multimodal transit hub (instead trains go to one place, ferries are someplace else, buses terminate in a third location)
- Purpose-built performing arts venue with more than 1,000 seats or so. There are lots of medium-sized venues but no big ones (not counting arenas). The nicest theatre in the city was torn down in the 1970's and a bigger one was never built.