The Metro Vancouver Retail Thread

[cairnstone]

Originally Posted by NewfBC

http://www.yellowpages.ca/bus/Britis...100842030.html

Looks like it's a design lab.. they've been recruiting for Men's designer at this location.
https://ca.linkedin.com/jobs/view/125388161

Ron.

Its the new location for the sweatshop that was located on west broadway

[jollyburger]

Originally Posted by cairnstone

Is Lulu the owner of the building or are they just the tenent. I may be wrong but I believe Chips owns the building. I heard about the gastown property 3 years ago and that was still when chip was involved in lululemon. Them kit ace opened so I assumed that was the spot lulu was supposed to move to.

He opened Kit and Ace in his building.

LTP’s Gastown properties include 151 Water Street, where Kit and Ace operates a store, and adjacent buildings at 157 and 165 Water Street.

https://www.biv.com/article/2016/5/l...ancouver-prop/

[Conrad Yablonski]

Originally Posted by cairnstone

Its the new location for the sweatshop that was located on west broadway

Oh Man that was a Classic too bad so many people missed the irony.

[urbancanadian]

Originally Posted by connect2source

What ever happened to this rather ungainly concept from 2008 for the rotunda featuring A&F?

Photo By : mallvibes.com

Here is one of the renders. I'm glad this version didn't happen. I'm guessing it'll be pretty nice so I'm excited to see some renders!

Edit - whoops. Wrong thread. Although I suppose this is a better place to discuss...

[officedweller]

For the new rotunda space -

My guess is Uniqlo (even though the upper mall is high end)..
They're opening a 2 level 28,000 sq ft store at CF Toronto Eaton Centre - so Pacific Centre makes sense.

There's a pic of the Toronto store by Kyle Alexander, here:
http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads...7#post-1132879

So expect a modernist box with big warehouse loft-like display windows (?) -
should be right up Busby's alley.

Although MGBA (of Vancouver) was Uniqlo's architect of record for the Toronto stores.
http://mgba.com/wp/uniqlo-opens-help-mgba-toronto/
Maybe that was interior design only.

[officedweller]

Controversy swirls as wine sales in grocery stores increase
Wine licence auctions, Save-on-Foods moves ensure more B.C. grocers will sell wine
By Glen Korstrom | July 22, 2016, 5:30 p.m.

...
Overwaitea Food Group (OFG) launched wine sales at its eighth Save-On-Foods grocery store in Parksville, on July 15, and OFG president Darrell Jones told Business in Vancouver that he expects to have wine sales at a ninth store, in White Rock, in early August.

“A wine section will also open in our Prince George store later this year,” Jones said.

Jim Pattison Group-owned OFG had previously launched wine sales at two Save-On-Foods stores in Surrey, two in Kelowna and one each in Tsawwassen, Langley and Maple Ridge.

All of those stores operate under operating agreements that OFG has with the British Columbia Wine Institute to use its licences.

OFG bid to buy all six wine-sale licences that the B.C. government put up for auction in late April and early May. In each case, however, it was outbid by Toronto-based rival Loblaw Companies Ltd. (TSX:L), Jones said.

“They were very expensive,” he said of the licences, which required a minimum bid of $125,000 each, plus a $25,000 refundable deposit.
...

https://www.biv.com/article/2016/7/c...-stores-incre/

[Conrad Yablonski]

Originally Posted by officedweller

https://www.biv.com/article/2016/7/c...-stores-incre/

I've only been in one grocery store that sold wine that was Tsawwassen.

Selection was poor and the clerk had little idea of what was on the shelves, less of what was in the bottles and NFC how to pronounce the wine or vineyard names, it's difficult to imagine circumstances that would cause me to use the service again.

Prices were high but I expected that.

[theKB]

Originally Posted by Conrad Yablonski

I've only been in one grocery store that sold wine that was Tsawwassen.

Selection was poor and the clerk had little idea of what was on the shelves, less of what was in the bottles and NFC how to pronounce the wine or vineyard names, it's difficult to imagine circumstances that would cause me to use the service again.

Prices were high but I expected that.

I have seen one of the BC content wine stores in Langley. Honestly I think this is one of the dumbest ideas out there. Why is it safer to sell BC wines in stores than allowing AT THE VERY LEAST any beer and wine to be sold in grocery stores. Oh well, can't expect too much logic from our government.

I do like that Moreno's in Langley (200th) recently reno'd their market and made half of it a liquor store. I guess it is a roundabout way to integrate the two.

[SpongeG]

the children think about the children. lol

they sell liquor at costco in alberta in a section with its own outside entrance, any costcos in bc selling liquor yet? or plans to?

they have a really huge bottle of kirkland vodka said to be made by grey goose, pretty good price too

[dreambrother808]

Originally Posted by SpongeG

the children think about the children. lol

they sell liquor at costco in alberta in a section with its own outside entrance, any costcos in bc selling liquor yet? or plans to?

they have a really huge bottle of kirkland vodka said to be made by grey goose, pretty good price too

I've heard their Kirkland wines are surprisingly good too.

[theKB]

Originally Posted by dreambrother808

I've heard their Kirkland wines are surprisingly good too.

90% of those products are just rebranded big names. I have seen a few Kirkland XYZ by (insert famous name here) including things that were pretty pricey.

Across the united states it works, I don't understand why it can't work here.

[s211]

Originally Posted by theKB

90% of those products are just rebranded big names. I have seen a few Kirkland XYZ by (insert famous name here) including things that were pretty pricey.

Across the united states it works, I don't understand why it can't work here.

Yes, they also have Kirkland Reserve wines. Nothing to slouch at.

And it's not just a US thing, as Alberta has Costco liquor outlets. Wine there is about 10-30% cheaper than in BC, and that doesn't always take into account the additional taxes that are added to BC purchases.

[LotusLand]

Some info and pics on the new Pacific Centre addition

http://dailyhive.com/vancouver/pacif...dome-expansion

[csbvan]

It looks awkward on the Howe St render.

[jollyburger]

Still looks better than the previous renders.

[LeftCoaster]

It was approved 7-1 last night at the UDP.

[officedweller]

Originally Posted by LotusLand

Some info and pics on the new Pacific Centre addition

http://dailyhive.com/vancouver/pacif...dome-expansion

Thanks for posting.

It looks like a retail block for Robson St. or West 4th, etc. not for the middle of downtown.

The 3rd floor restaurant space will be attractive to a tenant, because it over looks the VAG north plaza.

I'd rather see something more daring in design - a 4 storey Van Dusen pavilion?

From the second rendering - assuming that the blank wall on Howe wraps around the back of the building,
the side facing the Four Seasons looks like it's a blank wall.

It's not as integrated as it should be on the Howe St. side
(i.e. there's a staircase down into the mall from Howe St. - it doesn't even appear on the rendering).
as a mall entrance


http://dailyhive.com/vancouver/pacif...dome-expansion


http://dailyhive.com/vancouver/pacif...dome-expansion

[connect2source]

Don't mind it. Anything is better than that hideous 80's dome ( one of my colleagues refers to it as the nipple ),which had nothing to do with the original design of Pacific Centre and looks horribly dated and tired. It's also better than that previous proposal with the giant A&F flagship.

As far as losing the outdoor plaza, the dome took up and hence ruined most of it when it was built in the 80's and the rest remains a rarely used sort of smoking area today.

[jollyburger]

That discount t-shirt store on Granville has a For Lease sign in the window so maybe it was just a short-term lease?

[NewfBC]

Lululemon Lab on Broadway @ Cambie has closed and moved to the new Gastown location (50 Water Street).

Ron.