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Originally Posted by citizen j
^Nordstrom wanted to open their first Toronto store in the Sears Eaton Centre location downtown, but Sears isn't ready to give up that site yet.
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Another isssue with this Nordstrom deal is the loss of retail space. Vancouver is basically getting a suburban branch type store plopped in their downtown and potentially losing over 250,000 sq feet of retail space, as the new Nordstrom store will be smaller than the current store on the site.
This is not surprising as American stores have forgotten how to and don't do big stores anymore. This is kinda sad for a site that is currently a 600,000 sq foot store. It further makes the downtown retail offerings no better than your suburban mall when stores like Nordstroms open stores that are no larger than a mall store.
As for the Toronto Sears Eaton Centre. That location needs a store which will use all the retail space available to house a true grand urban store that is unique and not a copy of a suburban branch store.
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