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Toronto Eaton Centre

Some things I noticed on my walk home through TEC today:

I don't think this has been mentioned here yet (apologies if it has) but Pandora is moving next door into the former Lacoste space, after Lacoste moved to the store on the other side of the current Pandora store. So we basically have that one stretch of stores playing musical chairs.

The other, bigger story is that Artizia has hoarding up over the (former Le Chateau I think) space next to it's current store, and also a space further down the hall (the former Disney Store, once upon a time, I think?) which it is billing as its forthcoming "temporary boutique" which kinda suggests they're gonna move to the temporary store, and then renovate the current space + expansion into one massive new store. I believe the signs also said they'd be adding one of their cafes to the new permanent store.
 
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Really idiotic question.

Have any stores stayed in the same location more than a few months?

It seems like stores keep switching locations at least twice a year
 
I think this signage is new. They seemed to be cleaning it and I don’t recall seeing it before.

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Dan416 said:
I think this signage is new. They seemed to be cleaning it and I don’t recall seeing it before.

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It looks like they’re expanding the window on that left side of Uniqlo’s showcase. This is what was there before:

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The Simons sign was just added. They’re going through final touches on that corridor with a new ceiling almost completed and all the signage now in place. I went into more detail in the “Eaton Centre ongoing renewal” thread.

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All of the scaffolding has been taken down and now there are just some parts with hoarding and fencing while they work on the street level cladding.

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That street level cladding will be black on the Eataly side and on the Simons side, the flat green tile used in the interior of the mall is used around Simons’ Yonge Street entrance.

The collection of materials:
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Anticipating comments that this looks like a mishmash, it works quite well in person and I can see how it’ll come together once the remaining cladding is applied. The dark colours work nicely at street level.

A view from the north:
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The interior hallways in the Dundas atrium:
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Work is proceeding inside of Eataly. It’s nowhere near complete, making it clear that Simons will open first before Nike and Eataly are ready.

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The new Nike store opens the week of October 13th. Old store closes one night, new store opens the next morning. It'll be a near copy of the Bloor store with a central staircase in front of TV screens, checkout counters on the left. Women and kids on the main level, men upstairs. About the same size. They're locking in a major athlete for opening day, plans for regular activations in front of the store at the Trinity entrance.

I get the sense that Nike is going to dominate the former Nordstrom space more so than Simons or Eataly despite having the least square footage out of the three.
 
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