Looks Like FOG OFF CLOTHING on Water Street, is gone out of Business. Space is empty.
Unless the have moved somewhere else in the city ? Anybody know anything
Wife loves their winter hats

Location is permanently closed, I'm amazed he lasted that long. Never should have been a stand alone store, made much more sense to sell through Pseudio or somewhere similar.

Fog Off closed their brick and mortar store on Water Street but are still in business online ( https://www.fogoffclothing.com/collections/all ) and at various retailers across Atlantic Canada ( https://www.fogoffclothing.com/pages/where-to-buy ).

Is it true that Georgetown Bakery is closed "indefinitely" ??

Article from The Telegram on Volkswagen moving to Kelsey Drive. I hadn't heard of it until now - I missed the post on it here from June.

"Engibeer
This may have already been posted but anyway, I was in VW/Audi the other day and the sales manager said they're about to kick off construction on a new VW dealership behind Wal Mart on Kelsey Drive. The existing building on Kenmount Rd. will sell only Audi products. Not sure on the timeline."


http://www.thetelegram.com/business/...sey-drive.html

Yes, I believe the sign in their door said for personal reasons. Likely a death or illness I'm guessing.

Good news - reopening Friday Sept 15th.

Well that's one way to get free press lol

but yeah glad they're reopening, pretty big deal for the locals. We live outside of town and get our bread at tilthouse. Would be sad af if they closed.

Toys R Us in both USA and Canada have filed for bankruptcy protection. Not sure what this will mean for the St John's location?

Toys R Us in both USA and Canada have filed for bankruptcy protection. Not sure what this will mean for the St John's location?

Avalon Mall Sears is closing.

Finally. They been beating that dead dog long enough.

Here's some info about it:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfou...tore-1.4315054

Although it's not a big shock, Sears has been in decline for years. However, it'll be a definite impact on the local economy - I would imagine Sears employs around 100 people here. The retail sector is a tough place to be in right now.

Avalon Mall should take this opportunity now, especially since it's planning some major renos to rethink the Sears space. It's likely they will never get a tenant to fill that large space anymore. Last hope was Hudson's Bay perhaps, but they are struggling too these days. If it were up to me, I would devide up the space and extend the mall into it. Perhaps now, they will be able to entice some new tennants that they never had space available before, like H&M, Forever 21, or others. Though it still might be difficult with online shopping systematically destroying the physical retail store and shopping concept.

I'd imagine this would be the most logical step for the Avalon mall, especially given the ongoing renovations. The days of larger department stores are over and this can present an opportunity to attract new retail to the city. Hopefully the lag time will be minimal and those affected by this closure can seek re-employment.

Should move the food court there, get a few big name large restaurants added on to it.

I like that idea!

H&M is supposedly going where Gap was. Dunno?

Gap is actually apparently being split up into four smaller stores: Jump Plus, The Source, Charm Diamonds, and the fourth one is still unknown.

This mall floor plan from Crombie's website shows this.
http://www.crombie.ca/PDF/factsheet_54.pdf

We really have to stop with the 'H&M is coming to town' rumors. They've been alive ever since I moved to St. John's back in 2007. We need to be honest with ourselves, if they were actually interested in getting into out market, they would have done so by now. There's retail space available if they want it, and it's been available for years.

ACAN building sale pending in Paradise to Montreal company
 

Here's another article regarding the sale of the old ACAN building in Paradise

Source: The Telegram
Author: Kenn Oliver
Date: Oct 3, 2017

http://www.thetelegram.com/business/...l-company.html

New retailers eye St. John’s Sears location in Avalon Mall
 

... and another one regarding the soon to be vacant Sears space at the Avalon Mall.

Source: The Telegram
Author: Unknown
Date: Oct 3,2017

http://www.thetelegram.com/business/...alon-mall.html

Just announced that Steele is buying all of the Penney auto dealerships.

Was in the Avalon Mall over the weekend & saw that Sunrise Records has their sign lit. Work still ongoing inside presumably - the glass front still covered in paper. Will be nice to have another option for music purchases in the city.

Colemans on Newfoundland drive is opening this Monday (23rd) as per FB.

There is a large NLC in the same building as well, which will be the 3rd on the Eastside not including the little store inside Memorial Stadium Dominion. You would think there would be enough sales to justify 3 stores, seeing how the stores on Stavsnger and Howley Estates are 5 minutes drive apart.

Coleman’s To Open Doors On Newfoundland Drive Today:
http://vocm.com/news/colemans-to-ope...d-drive-today/

Looks decent.

Avalon Mall
 

Was in the Avalon Mall earlier in the week for the first time in a while and noticed quite a few differences...

Sunrise Records open, big new SoftMoc location, big new Charm Diamonds in the old Gap location, Ricky's opening again (yay!)

Hard to believe we are in an economic slump when you see all this development and all of the spots filled with shoppers!

Take a drive out by Stavanger, Aberdeen, and Henry Power and you won't have trouble believing it. :/

Why do you say that?

There's an awful lot of empty real estate. I'd say vacancies outnumber the actual businesses at this point.

Are you sure we are living in the same St. John's? I was down there today and didn't notice many vacanies. Only ones that come to mind are Golf Town and Target. Of course, Target closure had nothing to do with our economy. And golf town, well, St. John's isn't really a great spot for golf. There have been a few new businesses open in the past year, particuarly on White Rose Drive. Traffic is always busy everytime I am there.

Where else are there vacancies?

The golf place. The buildings next to and around Rona. There's a couple, well at least one, vacant in the lot with Mark's last I looked, the pet store? I think there's a empty shop in the Remax building. The entire bottom section of the Verafin building, that whole buildings been "done" for months and months now. The building with Wingin' it or the one next to it, or both, has vacancies. The large building beyond Canadian tire has floors vacant so far as I can recall. I think the Little Cesar's building still needs one tenant. Didn't one of the businesses in the Subway strip close?

I could be wrong on some of these, I haven't really paid attention and I'm not up and in those areas often, just recalling from recent memories. I'm sure there's one or two I've missed.

Add those to the Target and eventually Costco (unless they turn it into a business centre as rumored) plus whatever else might close shop..

OH RUA Sports Fanatic is gone. Henry's closed, replaced by a vape shop.. and we all know vape shops don't count :-D jk

The vape shop is owned by one of my best friends who I've known since I was 3. They're not going anywhere anytime soon; they actually know how to run a business unlike many of the other vape stores which popped up around town. Contributes to the local economy just as much as Henry's did, whatever Henry's was.

I wonder if there is any validity to the rumour that the current Costco will become a Costco Business Centre. Are there many of these in Canada? I believe this is a relatively new concept for Costco.

There is definitely new office and commercial buildings that have gone up in the past few years that are seemingly still vacant/not fully utilised...

I'm no expert but I think there is a bit of a lag time between demand and supply in real estate and the economy slowed down just as new office/commercial real estate was finally being built.

There's one, in Kitchener or London, maybe. I believe, assuming there's no others in the works, that we'd be number 2.

The 1st floor of the Verafin building is being taken over by...Verafin. Reno’s should conclude late in the year.

First or ground floor?

Ground. That’s the only floor not occupied today. Vale Are on the 2nd and Verafin presently the 3rd and 4th.

There's only one .. in Toronto (Scarborough).

Ron.

The building Verafin is in is fully leased according to the sign out front. Looks like they are just finishing up some renos on the first floor. The Axtion building is well underway in the area as well. The Newfoundland Chocolate Company has plans to build a factory in the Hebron area as well as they've outgrown their current facilities.

One of the call centres is moving into the back of the old Zellers/Target building. There are windows in the back that didn't used to be there before so it looks like renovations are coming along there.

Looks like the Bell Store is moving into the former Source location next to Hallmark. I saw Bell counters in there last week while going into Hallmark.

The building Pets Unlimited was in is now Ricki's and Cleo. Has been for at least a year now.

I read an article that Costco has plans to expand its Business Centres in Canada to more major cities in Canada in the next 5 years so its certainly possible they could keep both locations. Although with the current stand-off between Danny Williams and the City I don't think there will be much development in Galway anytime soon.

Loos like the Wal-Mart on Kelsey is going to be the first Supercentre in tbe city. Lots of work going on in there - a worker said it was because they were installing a full grocery section as they are converting to a Supercentre.

Great News!

The Kelsey Drive store and Mount Pearl location will both be undergoing a fairly significant renovation very soon.

I assumed all the Wal-Marts in town got rid of their garages so there would be space for more groceries. Any word on the Stavanger one?

Heard on NTV the other night that the Mall would be announcing plans for the old Sears location soon. Was at the mall last weekend and the staff at the store I was shopping at told me that they were extending the hall and splitting up the space. That part of the building needs to be madeover - looks basically the same as when Woolco was there. They also mentioned an additional floor and I can't remember if that was officially announced yet.

Found two images on Crombie Reit's website that I'm assuming are showing more of the Mall's future renovation plans

https://i.imgur.com/DvxnQv2.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/2sftAm5.jpg

Walmart Supercentres are coming to St. John's and Mount Pearl. There are even large banners outside saying so at Mount Pearl Kelsey. Stavanger and Topsail, however, do not have the banners up.

I noticed some east end activity recently. The building that houses Golf Town (the late), Carter's, Party City, etc is expanding again next to Party City. This building was built as an expandable complex to grow as needed. I'm guessing a lease has been signed by a retailer to open up there. I just don't understand why they are building on when the former Golf Town space sits empty. Maybe that's been leased as well. Who knows.

I also noticed the former Cineplex/Empire Theatre site on Hebron Way that never materialized is now in full swing with construction equipment, materials and trailers. Does anybody know what's going there? Offices? Retail? Cineplex afterall?