The Metro Vancouver Retail Thread - Page 601

Migrant_Coconut · #**12001** Posted **Oct 31, 2017, 9:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by s211

FFS, if I hear the phrase "disruptor" one more time...

Gosh darn millennials and their newfangled attempts to re-write the English language.

Alack and alas, hast thou Grammar Nazis no tutelage of histories ancient and modern, nor provision for leniency in thy cold hearts?

Translation: go easy on her, it's not like English hasn't been changing ever since it started out as a combination of Anglo-Saxon, French, and Jersey Shore Latin. If it were a particularly stupid typo or a misuse of "literally," fine.

officedweller · #**12002** Posted **Oct 31, 2017, 10:20 PM**

Retailers Are Using Lease Clauses To Block Amazon's Future Plans For Whole Foods
https://www.bisnow.com/national/news/ret...orningbrief&be=officedweller%40gmail.com

NewfBC · #**12003** Posted **Nov 1, 2017, 2:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by officedweller

Retailers Are Using Lease Clauses To Block Amazon's Future Plans For Whole Foods
https://www.bisnow.com/national/news/ret...orningbrief&be=officedweller%40gmail.com

This is all fine and good until Amazon's lease is up and they leave the mall with an empty space and build elsewhere.

Ron.

NewfBC · #**12004** Posted **Nov 1, 2017, 5:19 PM**

Uniqlo announces Guildford store..

https://www.facebook.com/UniqloCanada/ph...00332082/336998803377226/?type=3&theater

Ron.

Vin · #**12005** Posted **Nov 1, 2017, 6:46 PM**

Uniqlo probably opening in Guildford faster than having a decent store in downtown Vancouver. Sad...

Retail-Insider · #**12006** Posted **Nov 1, 2017, 8:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by NewfBC

Uniqlo announces Guildford store..

https://www.facebook.com/UniqloCanada/ph...00332082/336998803377226/?type=3&theater

Ron.

We were able to determine the size and location of the new store (thanks to a conversation with a broker) -- https://www.retail-insider.com/retail-insider/2017/11/uniqlo-announces-2nd-vancouver-area-store

A Daily Hive article recently indicated that a downtown Vancouver store would open in 2018, and that Montreal was in the works as well. Our source says that there is currently no confirmed downtown Vancouver location, and that Montreal is still several years out.

SpongeG · #**12007** Posted **Nov 2, 2017, 5:38 AM**

Cool. Guildford has so many empty spots, good to see it get something big.

osirisboy · #**12008** Posted **Nov 2, 2017, 6:02 AM**

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Originally Posted by SpongeG

Cool. Guildford has so many empty spots, good to see it get something big.

Yes for sure! Was there the other day and was just thinking that something with a big draw needs to go in this spot. That will really liven up that area. Although I have to say that mall always seem to be pretty busy.

SpongeG · #**12009** Posted **Nov 2, 2017, 6:06 AM**

i wonder how sears closure will affect the mall.

connect2source · #**12010** Posted **Nov 2, 2017, 12:38 PM**

Lindt to open a store in the Exchange Tower, will include a chocolate drinks-bar.

https://www.straight.com/food/989726/lin...re-and-cafe-downtown-vancouver-next-week

osirisboy · #**12011** Posted **Nov 2, 2017, 2:57 PM**

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Originally Posted by SpongeG

i wonder how sears closure will affect the mall.

Well since hardly anyone went to sears and it's at the end of a long corridor I don't think it'll impact anything when it closes.

hopefully they redevelop sears and everything north of 104. Would be nice to see high density there, something I wish they did when they redid the south section a few years back

officedweller · #**12012** Posted **Nov 2, 2017, 8:58 PM**

I thought I had read on the forum - years ago - that the Sears wing would be redeveloped.

Hopefully Ivanhoe Cambridge will retain some sizeable retail north of 104th and maybe even include an office tower, given the LRT proximity.

SpongeG · #**12013** Posted **Nov 2, 2017, 10:18 PM**

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Originally Posted by osirisboy

Well since hardly anyone went to sears and it's at the end of a long corridor I don't think it'll impact anything when it closes.

hopefully they redevelop sears and everything north of 104. Would be nice to see high density there, something I wish they did when they redid the south section a few years back

yeah, i think the corridor stores already suffer enough, it could get worse for them with no point of walking to anythiing down that end.

mentioned in the restaurant thread too, CaliBurger is opening at Guildford.

Sheba · #**12014** Posted **Nov 2, 2017, 10:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by officedweller

I thought I had read on the forum - years ago - that the Sears wing would be redeveloped.

Hopefully Ivanhoe Cambridge will retain some sizeable retail north of 104th and maybe even include an office tower, given the LRT proximity.

I've been looking to see if they've released any info and all I could find is what's already been done to the mall. The main part of the mall (south of 104th) was renovated fairly recently - I doubt they'll do much there aside from maybe building up the parking lots.

The walkway over 104th is their 'living wall' and apparently the largest one in N America so I doubt they'll do anything to hurt that. But the section north of 104 (which looks to only have Sears and a liquor store) - now that's ripe for redevelopment. I could easily see them putting in multiple towers. With all that surface parking it's comparable in size to the planned Georgetown development at King George and 102nd.

officedweller · #**12015** Posted **Nov 3, 2017, 12:22 AM**

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Originally Posted by Sheba

I've been looking to see if they've released any info and all I could find is what's already been done to the mall. The main part of the mall (south of 104th) was renovated fairly recently - I doubt they'll do much there aside from maybe building up the parking lots.

The walkway over 104th is their 'living wall' and apparently the largest one in N America so I doubt they'll do anything to hurt that. But the section north of 104 (which looks to only have Sears and a liquor store) - now that's ripe for redevelopment. I could easily see them putting in multiple towers. With all that surface parking it's comparable in size to the planned Georgetown development at King George and 102nd.

Yeah, probably a post in the Guildford thread a while back.

This article says they were to demolish part of the mall next to Sears in 2013.
That could be what I was thinking of.

https://www.reminetwork.com/articles/a-striking-mall-makeover/

SpongeG · #**12016** Posted **Nov 3, 2017, 4:37 AM**

they did demolish that part, it does look better down that part now.

EdinVan · #**12017** Posted **Nov 5, 2017, 10:05 AM**

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Originally Posted by csbvan

I hope they don't propose some stupid plan where a tower comes out of the Bay. That would be a travesty. While that can work, some buildings need to be untouchable, The Bay is one of them.

The City allowed the Canada Post building to be destroyed, so you can bet that they will allow The Bay to be destroyed, too. Sadly, in their insular, deluded world, they see this as progress.

EdinVan · #**12018** Posted **Nov 5, 2017, 10:08 AM**

I see Megabite Pizza on Thurlow is kaput.

SpongeG · #**12019** Posted **Nov 6, 2017, 4:26 AM**

dailyhive says Lindt chocolate is opening november 7 in the exchange building.

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Retail insider says the MCarthur Glen outlet is expanding and will open in 2019.

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McArthurGlen Vancouver Outlets to Expand: Vancouver’s McArthurGlen Designer Outlets is going to be growing in size — the popular 243,000 square foot outlet shopping centre opened in the summer of 2015, and it’s planning to add a second phase with 78,000 square feet of retail space that is expected to open in the spring of 2019.

https://www.retail-insider.com/retail-insider/2017/10/brief-november-3-2017-retail-insider

Built Form · #**12020** Posted **Nov 8, 2017, 12:09 AM**

Roots Pacific Centre is having a grand opening tomorrow at 10 am. Giveaways for the first 50 customers.