McDonalds at Library Square is closed this week for renovations - piles of boxes outside the entrance. And they only redid that location one or two years ago.
From this weeks issue of BIV, anyone know who leased out the space?
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Cooking up leases
The café gracing 1 Kingsway, set to open by the end of the year, has been leased to a well-known local chef – but it’s not Rob Feenie.
“We’re not talking about Lumière or anything like that. It’s still an East Side market,” said city property negotiator Jeremy Waldman, referencing Feenie’s former restaurant in Kitsilano.
While the 912-square-foot space is set on a prominent corner in a rising neighbourhood with 50,000 cars a day passing by, Waldman indicated the Kingsway-Broadway hub isn’t yet in the same echelon as many trendier parts of the city.
“There’s definitely a lot of funky cafés around the neighbourhood, but we’re not talking about Yaletown or anything like that,” Waldman said.
The tenant – whose name he wouldn’t disclose – will be savvy to that fact, he added. The city-owned property will be home to the new Mount Pleasant Community Centre, set to open later this year, and the café aims to serve community centre patrons rather than the surrounding neighbourhood.
That being said, Waldman noted that the space leased for top dollar, which CB Richard Ellis figures show leases for upward of $45 a square foot.
That's good to hear about the L'Hermitage retail. I hope it's something that fits the space well. I was noticing last week that it's a nice retail space. There are even windows on two walls, a couple of them facing towards the Westin next door in addition to the main street-front windows.
There are actually 2 remaining spaces on the Richards street side . . . a small one just before the hotel entrance and a larger one on the other side. I know the hotel would like some type of restaurant in the larger one so they could contract with them for their hotel. That would certainly be nice, but it would have to be a smaller full-service restaurant . . . there's room but it's not big enough for a huge restaurant . . . need to fit a kitchen and dining area in the space.
The other space is cute but not big at all. Could fit a little store or little cafe.
It's going to take a while to fill in all the new retail for the new buildings on that end of Robson, but it will be nice as they do fill in over the next few years.
Also the old Low Cost car rental at the south west corner of Granville and Helmcken has been gutted along with the building next door to house one BIG clothing store. Anyone know which large retailer is moving in?
Found out today it will be a Le Chateau but will not include the smaller building next to it.
Hope the Oakridge store is larger than Pacific Centre, that one can get crowded! Too bad they couldn't have built it on two levels with an entrance on Granville like H&M.
The Megabit Pizza at Granville & Smithe only takes up part of the space - there's a new showe store there too - between Megabite and Camoflage. There was a line up theis morning to get in.
Anyone know what's going on at the corner of Nelson and Granville across the Blenz. I believe it used to be an outlet store of some sort. Can't quite remember.
Anyone know what's going on at the corner of Nelson and Granville across the Blenz. I believe it used to be an outlet store of some sort. Can't quite remember.
Rumoured a few years ago to be a new 3 storey Earls - but not sure - there's a redevelopment sign on the building and the Nelson cafe around the corner has also closed down - so I think some form of redevelopment is going to happen - rather than just a new tenant.
Thanks Office Dweller That is a prominent corner and new Club/lounge/restaurant with ample outdoor patio space would be ideal. Or a retailer that we don't already have in the city.
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I was quite surprised. But the one on the corner, a bit down Richards St., still is for lease.
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