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Their Mac site/project is dead and was listed.
MacLac
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So when say Alberta.....they really mean YYC?
Kirkland 808
New Member
Hopefully we see at least 1 project in edmonton
David A
Senior Member
I've noticed some people from that area are very geographically challenged and don't realize there is more than one city over a million in Alberta.
Perhaps they really mean just a city, not a province, but hey saying a province sounds more impressive.
occidentalcapital
Senior Member
Bit of an update on this one:I kinda liked that one
EVER Square – 110,000 SF Centre For Lease – EVER RED
EVER Square is a retail, medical, and professional multi-level development on Calgary Trail and Gateway BLVD. The plaza includes drive-thrus, an office tower, and retail CRUs.everred.ca
EVER Square Announces Exciting New Businesses in 2024 – EVER RED
EVER RED is thrilled to announce the opening of multiple businesses in EVER Square, our flagship development on Calgary Trail and Gateway Blvd. This site is the future home of several national franchises, wellness and medical providers, and professional tenants in the office tower including...
everred.ca
Edmcowboy11
Senior Member
Taken April 3, 2023
Ever Square looking west from Gateway.
Ever Square looking west from Gateway.
Romanov
Active Member
I really like the trend of major construction companies moving into offices along calgary trail. They are prominent contributors to the Edmonton economy and are better showcased along the entrance/exit to the city as opposed to being in industrial parks off the beaten path.Bit of an update on this one:
EVER Square Announces Exciting New Businesses in 2024 – EVER RED
EVER RED is thrilled to announce the opening of multiple businesses in EVER Square, our flagship development on Calgary Trail and Gateway Blvd. This site is the future home of several national franchises, wellness and medical providers, and professional tenants in the office tower including...
occidentalcapital
Senior Member
Agreed! Nice cluster of notable firms
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Gronk!
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Historic Canada Permanent Building in downtown Edmonton gets modern makeover - Edmonton | Globalnews.ca
The historic building was built in 1910 as a bank for the Canada Permanent Mortgage Company. It later became a Japanese restaurant.
globalnews.ca
TravellingChris
Active Member
Nordstrom does have a good reputation in the U.S. and I remember the service being outstanding when I visited full-line stores Nordstrom stores in Seattle and Tukwila.
It's still difficult to believe that only one of their stores in Canada (Pacific Centre) made any money. How they couldn't make a success in Yorkdale, Canada's #1 fashion mall, I'll never know. (Their other locations were iffy but Yorkdale is outstanding real estate.)
TravellingChris
Active Member
I think a lot of people here would agree with you. Indeed, Edmonton is the only city outside Quebec which supports more than one Simons store (even Calgary, the GTA and Vancouver have only one each, though I expect Simons to snap up Nordstrom's Yorkdale space when it becomes available).
Simons is also a rare good news story in the department store world: it's actually growing (a new store in Halifax opens next year, which will finally take the chain coast to coast).
occidentalcapital
Senior Member
They say they are not a department store. But I agree they have many similar features to a department store.
TravellingChris
Active Member
Regardless of how the company defines itself, I think most people would view it as a department store. Its locations are too large and have too many sub-categories to be viewed as just a clothing store. Plus they aren't just an apparel retailer anyway, as they do have homewares and jewellery departments. Simons also functions as an anchor, like Hudson's Bay, in many shopping centres.
You could also start to debate the issue of whether a store like Hudson's Bay is a department store any longer, as it has been shedding product lines and departments for years in order to devote space to apparel and softlines. I think it's safest just to say that if it quacks like a duck, it probably is one.
TravellingChris
Active Member
The Londonderry Famous Players was located under the former Safeway, which is now occupied by Winners. There are still concrete steps leading down to it, but the last time I was there it was fenced off. The cinemas were taken over by a church for awhile. Directly to the south of the staircase leading down to the former theatres are concrete stairs leading UP to what is now service doors to the mall (no longer a public entrance). This used to be an entrance to Eaton's, in its first location in the mall. In the early 1990s Eaton's opened a new location in the mall (part of which is now occupied by the future No Frills). The original Eaton's is now part of the mall corridor.
TravellingChris
Active Member
Yep. I remember going there as a kid...seeing all the Disney movies there. You are correct about the corridor. There was a tunnel that led from the mall common area just outside the original food court, into the theatre. It allowed patrons to exit from the theatre into the mall. I think any traffic was just one way because there was only a single ticket booth, which was located at the outside entrance to the theatres, down the exterior staircase on the west side of (then) Safeway.