The Metro Vancouver Retail Thread - Page 36

jlousa · #**701** Posted **Nov 24, 2008, 9:33 PM**

Looks like the Waves in the Sapphire building is almost complete, should be opening within days.

The Starbucks in Shaw Tower opens on the 11th.

vanlaw · #**702** Posted **Nov 24, 2008, 10:02 PM**

The Gap at Pacific Centre has reopened where the Sony Store use to be

SpongeG · #**703** Posted **Nov 24, 2008, 10:32 PM**

does it look good?

did they go with the new look gap? ie darker woods and colours more intimate

vanlaw · #**704** Posted **Nov 25, 2008, 12:54 AM**

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Originally Posted by SpongeG

does it look good?

did they go with the new look gap? ie darker woods and colours more intimate

I didnt go in, just walked by - looks much smaller (obviously)

djh · #**705** Posted **Nov 25, 2008, 5:47 AM**

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Originally Posted by vanlaw

The Gap at Pacific Centre has reopened where the Sony Store use to be

The Sony Store wasn't very big, so that would mean a pretty small Gap location. Have they taken over the adjacent retail spaces too?

SpongeG · #**706** Posted **Nov 25, 2008, 6:10 AM**

i think the new idea with gap is smaller stores

I know the newer one I went to in Portland was quite small compared to the typical gap store

it was much nicer too

jlousa · #**707** Posted **Dec 6, 2008, 2:30 AM**

New high end private liqour store proposed for Pender and Bute, don't have time to post all the details, but it will be rather large. Here's the pdf on it.

http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/developmentservices/devapps/pc1211melville/notificationltr.pdf

http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/developmentservices/devapps/pc1211melville/operationalltr.pdf

Denscity · #**708** Posted **Dec 6, 2008, 5:02 AM**

[QUOTE=jlousa;3956341]New high end private liqour store proposed for Pender and Bute, don't have time to post all the details, but it will be rather large. Here's the pdf on it.

Yes! My other 'hood is almost complete.

SpongeG · #**709** Posted **Dec 7, 2008, 9:30 PM**

that tim hortons on davie is open now

it looks really small

Was down on main street yesterday - its changed so much since i was last there a couple years ago

front has expanded its home/gift kind of stuff into the clothing part of the store and the clothing is now in what I think used to be a paint store on the corner a door or to south and its huge - and it totally looks like an anthropolgie store

seems like that odd gap on main street is gone now - there used to be that cluster near main and 12th and than past king ed main got trendy again now you can get some trendy in the middle

i imagine the chains are eyeing the street as its really changing so fast now

entheosfog · #**710** Posted **Dec 7, 2008, 11:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by SpongeG

that tim hortons on davie is open now

it looks really small

Was down on main street yesterday - its changed so much since i was last there a couple years ago

front has expanded its home/gift kind of stuff into the clothing part of the store and the clothing is now in what I think used to be a paint store on the corner a door or to south and its huge - and it totally looks like an anthropolgie store

seems like that odd gap on main street is gone now - there used to be that cluster near main and 12th and than past king ed main got trendy again now you can get some trendy in the middle

i imagine the chains are eyeing the street as its really changing so fast now

I think the Tim's on The Drive is open now, too.

SpongeG · #**711** Posted **Dec 8, 2008, 1:06 AM**

I also walked past the gap in pacific centre last night - it is so small and looks quite dumpy really

didn't seem as nice as the new ones I saw in the states anyway

entheosfog · #**712** Posted **Dec 9, 2008, 6:31 AM**

I noticed today that another Waves is opening up on Main in that old pink building on the SW corner of Main and Cordova. The Chinatown Waves is just a few blocks away. The building is being repainted so I'm so sure it's not going to be pink for too much longer...

jlousa · #**713** Posted **Dec 9, 2008, 6:47 AM**

The gentrification of the DTES is nearly complete, I love it when a plan comes together.

Seriously though, they will do very well there, right across from the police station and an abundance of social workers in the area.

entheosfog · #**714** Posted **Dec 9, 2008, 6:57 AM**

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Originally Posted by jlousa

The gentrification of the DTES is nearly complete, I love it when a plan comes together.

Seriously though, they will do very well there, right across from the police station and an abundance of social workers in the area.

No kidding. The only other coffee shop in the near area is the Bean Around the World on Powell...

SpongeG · #**715** Posted **Dec 9, 2008, 7:35 AM**

i saw a waves going in somehwere else too - on pender near thurlow i think

hollywoodnorth · #**716** Posted **Dec 9, 2008, 10:41 AM**

http://www.wavescoffee.ca/

looks like they have a location at Joyce Station opening also.....anyone know if its in the Station like the location at Stadium Station?

They also had a location mentioned b4 at the Raffles on Robson.....but now they are not hyping it anymore.........speaking of Raffles......the retail/office there all 3 floors of it seems to be empty still......anyone know whats going on there?

jlousa · #**717** Posted **Dec 10, 2008, 11:42 PM**

The Waves at Pender and Bute is now open, don't know when it opened.

The Starbucks at ShawTower opened today, free coffee and snacks to anyone that shows up before 7pm.

phesto · #**718** Posted **Dec 11, 2008, 12:52 AM**

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Originally Posted by hollywoodnorth

http://www.wavescoffee.ca/

looks like they have a location at Joyce Station opening also.....anyone know if its in the Station like the location at Stadium Station?

They also had a location mentioned b4 at the Raffles on Robson.....but now they are not hyping it anymore.........speaking of Raffles......the retail/office there all 3 floors of it seems to be empty still......anyone know whats going on there?

Apparently Waves overextended and had to back out of a couple of lease deals - raffles may have been one of them - but I'm not sure.

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Great news about the private liquor store for Pender and Bute (if it goes ahead). I'd pay a couple of extra bucks not to have to fight the crowds in that tiny and awful BCL on Alberni. (which is a signature store apparently - I guess they signed it: "F#@* YOU!")

Hopefully the retail space along Bute is not empty too long.

osirisboy · #**719** Posted **Dec 11, 2008, 1:24 AM**

is the new bc liquor store beside the new safeway on denman going o be a signature store? are there any plans to do something about the one on alberni, it truly is a —.

phesto · #**720** Posted **Dec 11, 2008, 1:56 AM**

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Originally Posted by osirisboy

is the new bc liquor store beside the new safeway on denman going o be a signature store? are there any plans to do something about the one on alberni, it truly is a —.

The BCL on Alberni's lease runs out in 2011. (or sooner if Bentall wanted to build their tower), so its doubtful they would put any money into it unless they could renew for a longer term.

I'm sure they'd like to move, but the location is pretty central, and they'll probably wind up paying a lot more wherever they go.