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Originally Posted by trueviking
^have you been there recently? I was there yesterday and surprised by how busy it was. They have moved a bunch of furniture in and it feels more full. Still run down, but not as bad as it once was.
Polo is 140,000 sf.
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I do a fair bit of shopping there. It's the only Bay store in town that I visit. It's busy, but I don't get the sense that there's a ton of shopping happening in there as much as there is browsing and lunchtime walks.
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Originally Posted by trueviking
I agree. It's obviously not operating to maximum capacity, but why does any discussion about the bay assume the bay isn't part of it?
Saving the department store is way more important to me than figuring out what to do with the other floors. I would be totally happy with a renovated and active department store on the bottom two floors, even if the other floors were empty. Once it is gone, it is gone. We need to work to keep it.
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I take your point, the best case scenario is The Bay continuing to operate in that location. But the trend has been for a slow but steady shrinking of the store and I think people are expecting that to continue to its logical conclusion. In some respects I'm pleasantly surprised that it's still open... I expected it to be closed by now.
I wish they'd open up the basement again, though... it felt like having a Zellers down there when the grocery store was in operation breathed at least a little new life into the place. I'm surprised that it isn't worth anyone's while to put a similar operation in down there.