deerparker
Active Member
Tom's Place is open at Bay & Temperance (formerly FedEx).
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Retail-Insider
Active Member
Genesis Motors has launched its Canadian brick-and-mortar retail operations with a 4k sq ft store on Toronto's Queen St. East. A Mississauga Square One store will follow in the fall (as well as Laval and Montreal locations) -- http://www.retail-insider.com/retail-insider/2017/5/genesis-motors
AlbertC
Superstar
Michael Kors are planning to close up to 125 stores. I wonder if this will affect their Toronto locations.
http://fortune.com/2017/05/31/michaelkors-stores/
http://fortune.com/2017/05/31/michaelkors-stores/
Northern Light
Superstar
new Metro location set to open in Parkdale, Queen/Dufferin on June 15
AlbertC
Superstar
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/06/15/pop-up-ikea-caf-coming-to-queen-st-w.html
Pop-up IKEA café coming to Queen St. W.
The IKEA Play Café is opening Friday at 336 Queen St. W., and will combine shopping, playing and eating in the almost 8,000 square foot space through June 27.
It won’t be a typical café, however. Instead of lattes, croissants and sandwiches, it will offer frozen yogurt and Swedish meatballs, chicken balls and veggie balls, which visitors can top with different sauces and waffles, fried onions, chips, pickles or biscuits.
Pop-up IKEA café coming to Queen St. W.
The IKEA Play Café is opening Friday at 336 Queen St. W., and will combine shopping, playing and eating in the almost 8,000 square foot space through June 27.
It won’t be a typical café, however. Instead of lattes, croissants and sandwiches, it will offer frozen yogurt and Swedish meatballs, chicken balls and veggie balls, which visitors can top with different sauces and waffles, fried onions, chips, pickles or biscuits.
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
narduch
Senior Member
IKEA is expanding.
But I doubt downtown gets a store.
But I doubt downtown gets a store.
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
I have my doubts too given the storage needs - but it would be a hit should they do it.
AoD
narduch
Senior Member
I agree. The store would be a success.
I thought I read somewhere about a more urban Ikea concept that they were testing.
WislaHD
Superstar
I wonder what it would be like. Something similar to a Muji store except occupying a big-box store amount of space?
I wouldn't mind that.
AlbertC
Superstar
http://m.metronews.ca/#/article/new...adina-and-dundas-rexall-standard-theatre.html
Historic site at Spadina and Dundas will become a Rexall
Published on Jun 19 2017
David Hains METRO
It's been a Yiddish playhouse, the site of riot over a memorial for Lenin, and a controversial burlesque house. Now the historic site at the northeast corner of Spadina Avenue and Dundas Street West will become a Rexall Pharma Plus.
Rexall spokesperson Derek Tupling said the company has "a strong track record when it comes to local heritage buildings," citing the recent rehabilitation of the Brunswick House. He added the company is committed to working with Heritage Toronto on the project.
The company has already posted jobs for its new location, which is just south of another Rexall at Spadina Avenue and College Street. Tupling was unable to give a timeline on the site, but described it as being in early stages.
Rexall will only take the ground floor, which is about 7,000 square feet. The company is also looking at replicating exterior signage for what used to be a pharmacy onsite, and in recognition of Chinatown, will install their first bilingual signs in English and traditional Chinese.
The three-storey building was most recently a Royal Bank, but throughout its 95-year history it has been a famous theatre, a concert venue and burlesque house.
After being financed through shares sold to the local community, the Standard Theatre at 285 Spadina Ave. opened to great enthusiasm in August 1922. Designed by the prolific architect Benjamin Brown, the theatre quickly became a cultural and political hotspot for Toronto's burgeoning secular Jewish community. It played host in the 1920s and '30s to comedy acts, Shakespearean plays and concerts.
By the 1960s and 70s it was a racy burlesque house that sometimes offended Toronto the Good's precious sensibilities. The building was later renamed the Mandarin and reflected the neighbourhood's evolution into Chinatown, before it became a bank.
It earned heritage designation in 2007 for its "abstracted classical detailing" and general cultural value, according to the city.
Kaitlin Wainwright of Heritage Toronto says she would like the building's community-based roots to continue. "I would hope that part of this renovation is creating a space where the community not only goes for goods and services, but also where they see themselves reflected," she said.
Major chain stores have had an increasingly important role in preserving Toronto's built heritage. These companies are often able to afford the higher rents, undertake a major renovation, and make use of the large square footage.
Wainwright says this unique position means chain stores have a civic responsibility.
"The private sector absolutely has a role to play" when it comes to heritage conservation, she says. This idea isn't new, she adds.
"Since we started building things in Toronto [heritage preservation] has been a sticking point and a negotiating point.
Historic site at Spadina and Dundas will become a Rexall
Published on Jun 19 2017
David Hains METRO
It's been a Yiddish playhouse, the site of riot over a memorial for Lenin, and a controversial burlesque house. Now the historic site at the northeast corner of Spadina Avenue and Dundas Street West will become a Rexall Pharma Plus.
Rexall spokesperson Derek Tupling said the company has "a strong track record when it comes to local heritage buildings," citing the recent rehabilitation of the Brunswick House. He added the company is committed to working with Heritage Toronto on the project.
The company has already posted jobs for its new location, which is just south of another Rexall at Spadina Avenue and College Street. Tupling was unable to give a timeline on the site, but described it as being in early stages.
Rexall will only take the ground floor, which is about 7,000 square feet. The company is also looking at replicating exterior signage for what used to be a pharmacy onsite, and in recognition of Chinatown, will install their first bilingual signs in English and traditional Chinese.
The three-storey building was most recently a Royal Bank, but throughout its 95-year history it has been a famous theatre, a concert venue and burlesque house.
After being financed through shares sold to the local community, the Standard Theatre at 285 Spadina Ave. opened to great enthusiasm in August 1922. Designed by the prolific architect Benjamin Brown, the theatre quickly became a cultural and political hotspot for Toronto's burgeoning secular Jewish community. It played host in the 1920s and '30s to comedy acts, Shakespearean plays and concerts.
By the 1960s and 70s it was a racy burlesque house that sometimes offended Toronto the Good's precious sensibilities. The building was later renamed the Mandarin and reflected the neighbourhood's evolution into Chinatown, before it became a bank.
It earned heritage designation in 2007 for its "abstracted classical detailing" and general cultural value, according to the city.
Kaitlin Wainwright of Heritage Toronto says she would like the building's community-based roots to continue. "I would hope that part of this renovation is creating a space where the community not only goes for goods and services, but also where they see themselves reflected," she said.
Major chain stores have had an increasingly important role in preserving Toronto's built heritage. These companies are often able to afford the higher rents, undertake a major renovation, and make use of the large square footage.
Wainwright says this unique position means chain stores have a civic responsibility.
"The private sector absolutely has a role to play" when it comes to heritage conservation, she says. This idea isn't new, she adds.
"Since we started building things in Toronto [heritage preservation] has been a sticking point and a negotiating point.
soundmuseum
Active Member
Sigh, yet another Rexall...they already have a location up at College and Spadina! On the bright side, hopefully the building will look a lot better once they've finished the renovations. It's been an eyesore for a very long time, especially after RBC left the location.
They have no where near the number of locations that Shopper's Drug Mart has, although it appears they are trying!