The Metro Vancouver Retail Thread

[Built Form]

PAUL will be opening the new coffee spot in the VC2 lobby

[jollyburger]

I wonder how busy they'll be there. That block seems dead..

[jollyburger]

Lexus is opening a showroom inside the Station Square development.

https://storeys.com/metro-vancouver-retail-space-leasing/

[Vin]

Originally Posted by Built Form

PAUL will be opening the new coffee spot in the VC2 lobby

Love that!

[theKB]

Originally Posted by C3YVR

So it sounds like it will be Ralph Lauren moving into the former Brooks Brothers on Alberni.

Great fit - here's hoping they bring their coffee concept with it... significantly larger space than the Yorkdale store in toronto. (even better stick a RL restaurant concept upstairs - one can dream)

Is it including the space beside brooks brothers that lead up to michaels that looks like it has been demolished now.

[jollyburger]

Staples is dumping their Seymour location. I'm amazed they lasted that long.

https://www.spacelist.ca/listings/b/c2b2mg7v7u/c2b2q92jpy/retail#871309

[whatnext]

Originally Posted by jollyburger

Staples is dumping their Seymour location. I'm amazed they lasted that long.

https://www.spacelist.ca/listings/b/c2b2mg7v7u/c2b2q92jpy/retail#871309

That building has so much potential to be something really interesting. I wonder who owns it?

[jollyburger]

Originally Posted by whatnext

That building has so much potential to be something really interesting. I wonder who owns it?

Something called DVM Realty back in 1996 (Dominion Vancouver Motors)

https://council.vancouver.ca/960514/p5.htm

Seems like it got amalgamated into Royal Canadian Securities based in Winnipeg. Most of the directors have surnames Everett

https://www.canadacompanyregistry.com/companies/royal-canadian-securities-limited-4/

Seems like it was a family corporation for Dominion Motors. Founded by Douglas Everett who was born in Vancouver but went to university in Manitoba. Never knew they were also connected to Domo Gas.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/douglas-everett-obituary-domo-1.4598858

[whatnext]

Wow, interesting that the same company still controls it. I can't imagine there's much heritage value inside but the structure itself would make a great podium for a hotel. Much better location than the proposed one at Granville & Davie.

[officedweller]

DO-minion MO-tors
DOMO Gas

I seem to remember they gave out promotional stuff like glasses, etc.

[jollyburger]

Originally Posted by officedweller

DO-minion MO-tors
DOMO Gas

I seem to remember they gave out promotional stuff like glasses, etc.

• Video Link

Petro Canada went through 50 million Olympic glasses during the 1988 Olympics

https://www.removepaywall.com/article/current

[Changing City]

The interior was totally stripped out when Dominion Motors closed the Ford dealership in the 1980s. Originally there were ramps inside to all three floors, and cars were cleaned on the 3rd floor. The office conversion of the top two floors is much more recent, in 2014. When Staples first opened in the 1990s they weren't leased out.

It was built with a gas bar on the corner, as this 1936 VPL image in a blog post on Changing Vancouver shows.

[theKB]

Given the extinction of fuel stations in the downtown core, it would be interesting to see some of these concepts brought back to life (which will never happen) but even if they were revitalized as EV charging stations it could be an interesting concept, potentially paired with a coffee shop/cafe. Around the world refuelling stations have been integrated into buildings (europe/asia) but something that has never really caught on here.

Who am I kidding nothing like that will ever happen here.

Of note - wonder if anything will happen with the old service station at beach and howe by Vancouver house.

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/video/2021/03/01/abandoned-gas-station-becomes-invisible-landmark/

[Changing City]

Originally Posted by theKB

Given the extinction of fuel stations in the downtown core, it would be interesting to see some of these concepts brought back to life (which will never happen) but even if they were revitalized as EV charging stations it could be an interesting concept, potentially paired with a coffee shop/cafe. Around the world refuelling stations have been integrated into buildings (europe/asia) but something that has never really caught on here.

Who am I kidding nothing like that will ever happen here.

Of note - wonder if anything will happen with the old service station at beach and howe by Vancouver house.

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/video/2021/03/01/abandoned-gas-station-becomes-invisible-landmark/

There used to be a number of gas pumps under buildings, but building codes don't allow it here any more. And as Downtown seems to survive with one gas station, it would be odd for anybody else to invest in a new one. Charging stations are coming to public parking lots and parkades (and gas stations) already. Adding more as on-street parking (like the recently added Richards Street chargers) is a more logical location than taking up developable land.

(Outside Downtown, and therefore off-thread, maybe we'll start to see charging stations replacing gas stations - that's already happening in Europe, and Shell, for example, are closing 1,000 gas stations in 2 years, and converting some to charging stations as they add nearly 150,000 more chargers by 2030.)

[officedweller]

Originally Posted by jollyburger

• Video Link

Petro Canada went through 50 million Olympic glasses during the 1988 Olympics

https://www.removepaywall.com/article/current

I think I do remember getting lead crystal wine glasses from DOMO.
Remember when Safeway etc. used to do the same thing with glasses and dinnerware?

[officedweller]

The Daiso on Granville near Robson has closed down.

Daiso closing its Granville Street store in downtown Vancouver after three years
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/daiso-granville-street-downtown-vancouver-closing

[Changing City]

Opening in Landmark on Robson - Aisle 24; automated, cashier-less grocery market open 24-hours.

[SpongeG]

Originally Posted by officedweller

The Daiso on Granville near Robson has closed down.

Daiso closing its Granville Street store in downtown Vancouver after three years
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/daiso-granville-street-downtown-vancouver-closing

there was a sign on the store a few weeks ago that says they are moving to City Square.

[SpongeG]

there is a DOMO in Richmond isn't there?
they have them all over Edmonton. At Domo we jump to the pump for you!

[officedweller]

Originally Posted by SpongeG

there was a sign on the store a few weeks ago that says they are moving to City Square.

I wonder how much shoplifting they had at the Granville store?
They should do well at City Square next to the Sungiven.
There's a Dollarama on the level above.