Subscribe via RSS 2.0by McNally Robinson - Friday Dec 28 2007 4:34 pm
Posted in: Store News
In the spring of 2008 McNally Robinson will move its Portage Place store in Winnipeg to much larger space at Polo Park. In the fall, we will open a new store in Toronto, our first in Ontario.
Polo Park
Construction began on our Polo Park store November 1. The concrete footings and foundation were poured before serious winter set in, but the guys erecting the steel structure for our new, high-ceiling restaurant went out in the cold. We are installing wiring, plumbing and ceilings as this newsletter goes out, and bookcases start to arrive on site in February. Opening is scheduled April 1.
The Toronto store is an anchor tenant in a new style of shopping mall developers call a ?lifestyle centre?. Built as outdoor streetscapes with parking surrounding the development and substantial onsite condominium developments, lifestyle centres create a natural urban mix of large and small stores, grassy areas, bicycle stands, window shopping and automobile access.
Clearly lifestyle centres feel much more organic than the artificial enclosures of indoor regional shopping centres and they have been wildly successful in California and other parts of the United States, but the question is: will Torontonians endure exposure to the weather? We shall see.
Grand opening for the new Shops of Don Mills is slated for October 1. The outdoor skating rink opens soon thereafter and hot chocolate will be available at Prairie Ink Restaurant.
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