Speculations about Saks locations from Retail Insider. Here are the quotes that stand out as important;
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Newer American Saks Fifth Avenue stores are generally in the 80,000-120,000 square foot range. Hudson's Bay has 90 Canadian stores. Several are in Saks-worthy locations. Although we'd only expect Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver to get Saks stores, we've do a more comprehensive metro-area breakdown of possible full-line or shop-in-store Saks Fifth Avenue locations via HBC.
Ottawa
Rideau Centre: A Saks Shop-in-store (or even a smaller full-line Saks) carved out of the 335,000 square foot Ottawa Rideau Street Hudson's Bay store would compliment Rideau Centre's Nordstrom store (which will open in 2015) as well as La Maison Simons, also in 2015. Competitor Holt Renfrew, located way over at 240 Sparks Street in Downtown Ottawa, could see an uncertain future as a result of a Saks opening in Ottawa.
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Here's something kind of funny (yet kind of sad);
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Montreal
We've consulted with a retail analyst who says they're not sure if Montreal's economy or language laws would welcome Saks Fifth Avenue to the city at the moment. Downtown Montreal has a 655,000 square foot Hudson's Bay store that is currently undergoing renovations to include luxury department 'The Room'.
We'll keep you updated on HBC's possible Saks purchase. As we mentioned, an announcement could be made as early as this week.
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They give breakdowns of other Hudson Bay's properties in the big 6 cities. Read more;
http://www.retail-insider.com/
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