General Retail News

[robdrimmie]

Stephen's Jewellers in Frederick Mall is closing. The couple that has run it (parents of a former coworker of mine) are retiring.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BpWvFfcFbGu

[bgb_ca]

There's a new halal supermarket opening up at the former shoppers drug Mart at hazel and Albert.

[undelivered]

According to Cushman & Wakefield's leasing PDF, Structube will be opening a new store in Waterloo at the Kingspoint Centre in the empty pet store unit beside Bouclair, across from Homesense.

[rangersfan]

There are plans in motion to expand the shopping centre at Lackner and Ottawa St.

Building permits:
Work Type Shell - Only - Retail/Wholesale Store
Permit Description Permit is for shell only construction of a new one storey building attached to an existing plaza by a firewall and includes underground plumbing and façade alterations to existing building. See permit

Issue Year 2018
Work Type Site Services - Non-Residential Plumbing
Permit Description Permit is for site servicing for a future addition onto the existing building.

Site plan:
https://centrecorp.net/property/lackner-.../#property

[MacBerry]

Conestoga Mall Hits $1k-Per-Square-Foot Productivity Milestone


Conestoga Mall is the first shopping centre in Canada not located within a major metropolitan region to see annual sales per square foot surpass the $1,000 benchmark

[JoeKW]

I'm curious what their numbers would be without Apple. Apple is the leader in $/sqft in retail. An article from 2017 put it at $5500/sqft in US dollars.

[Watdot]

Conestoga Mall Hits $1k-Per-Square-Foot Productivity Milestone
Conestoga Mall is the first shopping centre in Canada not located within a major metropolitan region to see annual sales per square foot surpass the $1,000 benchmark

Thanks for that post!
Conestoga Mall just needs a Tesla store now.

[Watdot]

According to Cushman & Wakefield's leasing PDF, Structube will be opening a new store in Waterloo at the Kingspoint Centre in the empty pet store unit beside Bouclair, across from Homesense.

Thanks! Was wondering what that was going to be. Looks like renovations finished up with the front entrance, imagine it may open in the near future.