Toronto Eaton Centre

[Richard White]

The building itself will still have to remain open, at least south of Nordstrom, as part of its legal agreement in exchange for closing

Not neccesarily. If the government orders the doors locked under the state of emergency they are required to comply

 

[ShonTron]

Somewhere between 50 and 60% of the stores are now closed.

Among the stores open yesterday that are closed today: Nordstrom, HBC, Roots, Victoria’s Secret, Zara.

Still open: the chocolate and pastry shops, Indigo, Starbucks, Hugo Boss, several phone kiosks, jewelry stores, the Drake store.

 

[PinkLucy]

Indigo is closing its stores tonight.

 

[Richard White]

Indigo is closing its stores tonight.

I just had someone come back saying Starbucks was giving away free milk there because they were closing the store.

I think Starbucks will be the next to close their stores.

 

[PinkLucy]

They had announced that they would be closing busy locations so that one doesn’t surprise me.

 

[ShonTron]

They had announced that they would be closing busy locations so that one doesn’t surprise me.

There are several Starbucks elsewhere (including two other locations in the mall, even when Indigo closes) to serve remaining retail and skeletal office workers.

 

[Richard White]

There are several Starbucks elsewhere (including two other locations in the mall, even when Indigo closes) to serve remaining retail and skeletal office workers.

The Mall locations are all closing as per Starbucks.

 

[Richard White]

I would not be surprised if every Starbucks downtown closed temporarily.

 

[AndreaPalladio]

Saks and The Bay have closed until the end of the month.

 

[Tuscani01]

SportChek and Marks will be closed as of tomorrow until April 2nd for now.

Canadian Tire to have reduced hours going forward. 8am-6pm. No more paper CT money, and encouraging customers to not use cash.

 

[ShonTron]

The only store I saw open during a quick walk through the Eaton Centre today was Danish Pastry Shop.

I took these photos around 2:30 PM.

 

[Johnny Au]

The busiest mall in North America (temporarily) becomes a dead mall.

 

[ticky]

The busiest mall in North America (temporarily) becomes a dead mall.

There's zero percent chance the Eaton Centre is the actual busiest mall in NA. Sure, they can say x amount of people visit it every year, but many, many of those people just happen to be passing through.

 

[ShonTron]

The entrances to the Eaton Centre are now blocked with Jersey barriers, with doors locked “due to COVID-19.”

This may be a violation of the city’s planning requirement for the Eaton Centre Its construction in the 1970s blocked off several east-west public access points.

 

[Richard White]

The entrances to the Eaton Centre are now blocked with Jersey barriers, with doors locked “due to COVID-19.”

This may be a violation of the city’s planning requirement for the Eaton Centre Its construction in the 1970s blocked off several east-west public access points.
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At this point I doubt anyone is using it as everyone is off the streets as it is. The problem is that by keeping it open you need extra security as it will become a homeless shelter of sorts.

That being said, given the pandemic I can see why they would want to close it. The various states of emergency probably invalidate the planning requirements for the time being.