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Originally Posted by acottawa
Not everyone can afford to shop at Nordstrom. Rideau Centre has carved out a great niche catering to the affluent (and the wannabes). St Laurent is presentable, is always packed, has limited vacancy (mostly on the office side) and offers stores and services catering to middle class and working class people in the city (probably the large majority). The expansion plan would have put it in direct competition with the Rideau Centre and would have made it completely out of place with the area.
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By the virtue of size alone it would have automatically become a competitor with Rideau Centre? You're not making any sense! St. Laurent did not have to go upscale by going larger, they just had to offer a better selection and a better experience for the shopper. Right now the mall seems busy, but a big part of that is the limited space. The main floor is around the size of Carlingwood. It's really not a big mall when you subtract the non-retail GLA. An expansion could have made it a destination. Right now it gets traffic because of it's location and easy access but it could have been so much more.
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