Retail Insider resumes our annual tradition of sharing holiday photos of Canadian shopping centres for 2022. Both landlords and merchants have rolled out the red carpet for holiday shoppers and the staff at Retail Insider wanted to share their efforts for those on a mission as they plow through their Christmas shopping, those who haven’t seen their favourite retail haunts over the holiday season for a while, or for those who like to thumb through festive holiday photos like we do!
This instalment of the ‘Holiday Photo Series’ takes us to The Bay Centre in Victoria, British Columbia. This shopping mall provides visitors with more than 90 interior and store front shops. The four floors of the Centre covers two city blocks. The Bay Centre has 410,264 square feet of retail space.
As shown in the “1990” in the capstone above the main entrance (visible from our first exterior photo), the mall opened its current iteration in 1990 and is located near Victoria’s Old Town neighborhood. The shopping centre spans two city blocks and is the city’s first large shopping mall in the downtown area.
Prior to 1990, a former Eaton’s building was demolished as well as several historic buildings to allow the two-block footprint to be possible.
Eaton’s opened within the new “Eaton Centre” as the shopping centre was a partnership between Eaton’s and Cadillac Fairview. Sears Canada filled the space after Eaton’s went bankrupt in 1999; however, Hudson’s Bay took over thereafter and the centre’s name was changed.
Cadillac Fairview sold “The Bay Centre” to LaSalle Investment Management in 2010.
We hope you enjoyed our holiday tour of The Bay Centre in Victoria, British Columbia. Don’t forget to check out our other retail photo tours on Retail Insider. Thank you for taking this tour with us.
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