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News on retail chains (was: New Mall Retail)
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pw20
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The floor plan here is large, 40-50k square feet with multiple levels empty, so you're talking in excess of 100k square feet of retail; my only thinking here is something similar to Ikea in Queen's.
Richard White
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The floor plan here is large, 40-50k square feet with multiple levels empty, so you're talking in excess of 100k square feet of retail; my only thinking here is something similar to Ikea in Queen's.
Walmart perhaps?
Northern Light
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Nope
Towered
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ikea!
Bayer
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I'm still hoping Simons will locate somewhere downtown. This location happens to be around their usual square footage, but I'm not sure it would be good for them.
Richard White
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I can't see Simons going there. I can see it being more along the lines of Ikea, Structube, Lowes, etc.
afransen
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Aren't those commercial units 'condos'? Wouldn't they have to buy out all the individual owners? I would think only relatively unsophisticated shop-owners would have gotten suckered into buying units in there. A landlord would not have built that.
Northern Light
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Empire (the parent of Sobeys) is buying Longos. 
www.thestar.com
Another nail in the coffin of competition.
Sobeys parent Empire agrees to buy majority stake in Longo’s for $357M
The deal includes online grocery delivery service Grocery Gateway.
www.thestar.com
Another nail in the coffin of competition.
Richard White
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Empire (the parent of Sobeys) is buying Longos.
Sobeys parent Empire agrees to buy majority stake in Longo’s for $357M
The deal includes online grocery delivery service Grocery Gateway.
Another nail in the coffin of competition.
That's a shame, I really liked Longos. Their selection was fresh and alot of things were made in house.
I have never been a fan of Sobeys, I found them to be overpriced and lacking quality items. I prefer to shop at Loblaws or Real Canadian Superstore myself given both the selection and quality of items.
Towered
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Sobey's stores are ugly too - the interior design looks straight out of 1985. That's actually a factor in me avoiding their stores.
I seem to have survived weekly trips to my local Sobeys… haven't even lost any pearls from clutching them too tightly. But, yeah, what a hellscape! No one should have to see this!
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Richard White
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Not a hellscape but it does remind me of a gussied up Food Basics.
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The basement ones are certainly a condo with individual Unit owners - not sure about the larger commercial Units above ground. This Nasty Post article is worth a re-reas:
'A world-class address': Nowhere else will you find such desolation and gloom as in the solitude of The Shops at Aura
Calum Marsh: At no other mall in the city, perhaps at no other mall in the world, will you find such an absence of people or places to shop
nationalpost.com
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C'mon, next to their direct competitor Loblaws, that's weak!