The easiest way to adjust malls to a more urban environment (Sherway and Square One especially) is to build non-retail buildings attached to the mall on what is now parking--similar to the office towers at Eaton Centre/The Bay.
 
Nordstrom will indeed take over the sporting life section of the mall but it will also be an expanded 2 story building on the south end.
http://www.retail-insider.com/2012/07/nordstroms-location-in-torontos-sherway.html

I'm hoping they come up with an led wall like the new store in salt lake:
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Also, Holt Renfrew's expansion will make it the bigger than the yorkdale one at over 100,000 sq ft of space.
http://www.retail-insider.com/2012/07/new-holt-renfrew-store-for-sherway.html
 
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It appears Holt Renfrew at Yorkdale WILL be larger than the Sherway Gardens store, as per this website: http://www.retail-insider.com/2012/09/holt-renfrew-yorkdale-to-add-second.html stating:

"Holt's CEO Mark Derbyshire confirms that the Yorkdale store will add a second level (modifying a previous food court above Holt's) to create a 120,000+ square foot Holt Renfrew store with a central, two-level atrium. This was a recent further expansion-decision and is expected to be comple by August 2013."

The same website says Nordstrom will move to where Sporting Life is, via a 138,000 sq ft store: http://www.retail-insider.com/2012/09/nordstrom-press-release-names-first.html

"4) The Toronto Sherway Gardens store will be about 138,000 square feet, and will be a newly-built store at the south-end of the mall (currently occupied by Sporting life, as we previously reported). It will open Fall 2016."
 
Henri Bendel will open its first Canadian store at Sherway Gardens: http://www.retail-insider.com/2012/09/henri-bendel-coming-to-canada-first.html

"NYC-based Henri Bendel will open a 3212 square foot store at Toronto's Sherway Gardens shopping centre. Several other Canadian locations in the works. The store will be located in a new north-end mall expansion that will include a new Holt Renfrew store, Sporting Life, Harry Rosen, and a new French luxury goods retailer that we'll announce tomorrow."
 
Big Daddy said:
Or better yet, why is the Vancouver store so much bigger than a store in a city many times its size?
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Because theirs is downtown, in an existing space, atop a major transit hub, not too far away from their headquarters in Seattle, such that people are already very familiar with them? Rather than a suburban mall thousands of kilometres away where there are already places to shop? Vancouver is a retail dead zone. Not that Nordstroms won't do well here, but people in Vancouver will go nuts.
 
Big Daddy said:
Or better yet, why is the Vancouver store so much bigger than a store in a city many times its size?
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Also, I can't see Vancouver having more than two stores in the market, or more than one (maybe two) in Calgary or Ottawa. Nordstrom will have several more stores in the GTA (at least one in the core). For comparison's sake, Chicagoland, has 4 Nordstrom stores and 7 Nordstrom Rack stores.
 
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