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Superdry Partners with Brokerage to Open Canadian Stores

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Craig Patterson
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Canada could soon see its first freestanding Superdry stores. Aurora Realty Consultants is working with Superdry’s Canadian distributor to secure store locations for the popular U.K. brand in Canada. 

Superdry was founded in Cheltenham, U.K. in 1985, and its first store opened in London’s Covent Garden in 2004. The brand, known for its vintage Americana styling, Japanese graphics and British tailoring, sells men’s and women’s fashions as well as accessories. Superdry has grown to become a fashion powerhouse, with annual revenues in excess of $900 million Canadian dollars and hundreds of stores worldwide. Superdry operates freestanding full-price and outlet store locations in the United states, and is available in Canada at retailers such as Hudson’s Bay.

Distributor Manhattan International has the rights to wholesale Superdry in Canada, and it also has rights to Superdry’s Canadian retail operations. The company is working with Aurora Realty Consultants to find retail space for Superdry’s Canadian stores, which will ideally be in the 2,500 to 3,000 square foot range in enclosed malls as well as streetfront locations. Jeffrey Berkowitz [V-Card] is the contact at Aurora Realty Consultants for Superdry in Canada. 

AllSaints Opens 1st Montreal Store [Photos]

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Craig Patterson
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British fashion brand AllSaints opened its fourth Canadian location this week in Montreal. The 2,500 square foot store is located at 2138 rue de la Montagne, south of Holt Renfrew and the Ritz Carlton Hotel, and a block north of Ogilvy. 

Retail Insider Montreal correspondent Maxime Frechette took photos of the new store, which features exposed brick/stone walls and concrete flooring, contrasting with metal and glass fixtures. Men’s and women’s AllSaints fashions are showcased, as well as a selection of footwear and accessories. The store was designed in-house. 

AllSaints is in the process of opening stores across Canada. The company opened its third Canadian store on February 24 of this year at CF Toronto Eaton Centre, measuring about 1,500 square feet. AllSaints’ first Canadian location opened in April of 2013 at Toronto’s Yorkdale Shopping Centre, measuring 6,600 square feet in the mall’s southwest wing which opened in the fall of 2012. A second Canadian store, measuring 2,237 square feet, opened in June of 2015 at Vancouver’s CF Pacific Centre. 

AllSaints was founded in 1994 in Spitalfields, U.K., and the brand has grown to over 70 free-standing retail locations worldwide. It has free-standing U.S. locations in major cities including New York City, Boston, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Miami, Washington, D.C., Santa Monica and Seattle, as well as four outlets. It also operates concessions within many American Bloomingdale’s locations. The brand retails menswear, womenswear, footwear, and accessories. The brand is known for being ‘edgy and directional’ with a muted palette dominated by blacks, browns, whites, and grays. The company’s retail stores feature interiors of exposed brick, weathered wood and metal. 

Harry Rosen Reveals Overhauled/Expanded Montreal Flagship [Photos]

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Craig Patterson
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Upscale Toronto-based menswear retailer Harry Rosen has opened departments in its enlarged Montreal flagship. The store was expanded from 22,000 square feet to 33,000 square feet as part of a $15 million store overhaul. 

The store features several impressive shop-in-stores, including Tom Ford, Giorgio Armani, Ermenegildo Zegna, DSquared2, Dolce & Gabbana, Canali, Brunello Cucinelli, as well as Harry Rosen’s first Moncler shop-in-store. Harry Rosen also features a new ‘avant-garde’ designer department featuring brands such as Jil Sander, Costume National, Lanvin and Maison Martin Margiela. 

An upgraded exterior with black branded awnings and signage was recently revealed, incorporating the facade of the mall’s former Club Monaco, as well as valet parking at the store’s Peel Street entrance. The store’s previous awnings were blue. 

Montreal’s Harry Rosen, located at Les Cours Mont Royal at 1455 Peel Street, opened in 1999 and at the time, was the second-largest in the chain (following the then 32,000 square foot Bloor Street location in Toronto). Since its opening, Harry Rosen stores have become larger. In the fall of 2008, its Bloor Street flagship expanded from 32,000 to 54,000 square feet, making it one of North America’s largest upscale men’s stores. In 2010, its downtown Calgary store expanded from about 18,000 square feet to just over 30,000 square feet. Its Yorkdale Shopping Centre location is completing an expansion that will see it grow to occupy almost 31,000 square feet.

Les Cours Mount Royal is an upscale Downtown Montreal retail centre that was once a large hotel. Built in 1922, the then-Mount Royal Hotel was the largest in the British Empire, with 1,100 rooms. In 1988, about 200,000 square feet of the hotel’s lower portion was converted to retail.

Most of the photos above and below were taken by our Montreal correspondent Maxime Frechette. 

CF Don Mills to See Major Redevelopment Investment [Renderings]

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Craig Patterson
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Landlord Cadillac Fairview is investing $21 million to enhance its CF Shops at Don Mills in suburban Toronto. Construction is already underway, with a completion date set for the spring of 2017. Pedestrian enhancements, parking improvements, elevated entertainment zones and convenient nearby LRT transit accessibility are all part of the plans for the open-air shopping centre, which opened in April of 2009. 

Upgraded wayfinding and signage will be installed to help shoppers better navigate the property. The centre’s public realm, particularly along O’Neil Road, will see enhanced street-scaping including wider sidewalks, new cobblestone roadways and unique catenary lighting systems. Common areas will see upgraded furniture and seating areas, on-site art installations and landscaping. Widened sidewalks, store-front bench seating and seasonal decore will be features of the enhanced centre. The existing onsite water fountain will also receive a refresh.

Parking improvements to the centre will include new, illuminated, digital signage displaying real time parking counts and better access to the centre’s free four-level, 1,000 stall parkade through a new pedestrian entryway.

CF Shops at Don Mills’ entertainment components will also be enhanced, with a second entertainment zone being added at the junction of Leadly Lane and Karl Fraser Road. The centre already features one of the region’s only VIP Cineplex theatres, drawing from an affluent catchment surrounding the centre. 

Cadillac Fairview Senior Vice President of Development Niall Collins explained how the centre mixes local retail with big national and international chains, creating a retail mix that’s lacking in many enclosed malls. CF Shops at Don Mills will also see more housing on-site — hundreds of new residential units are already on the 40-acre property, with a total of about 2,000 units in seven towers expected when completed. The centre is constantly evolving, according to Mr. Collins, as Cadillac Fairview continues to invest in creating an innovative mixed-use community. 

Access to public transportation will be enhanced with the opening of the Cross Town LRT — CF Shops at Don Mills will soon be accessed via nearby Science Centre Station (formerly Don Mills Station), with station and track construction nearly completed. 

All renderings were supplied by Cadillac Fairview. 

Browns Shoes Opens Two Impressive ‘B2’ Locations

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Craig Patterson
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B2 AT SQUARE ONE. PHOTO: BROWNS SHOES

Montreal-based multi-brand footwear retailer Browns Shoes recently opened two state of the art locations for its B2 banner. The retailer is also in the process of expanding its store operations for its Browns, B2 and Browns Outlet concepts. 

The new B2 stores compliment existing Browns store locations in each of the centres. The CF Promenades St-Bruno store (near Montreal) measures 2,594 square feet, while a B2 location at Mississauga’s Square One spans an impressive 3,215 square feet. 

Both B2 stores feature contrasting interiors, with black chrome and textured glass blending with raw materials. Cash counters, which act as focal points in the stores, appear to have been carved on-site from a single block of natural stone. Light fixtures, suspended in the air, resemble tiny, glistening jewels on a background of imperfect concrete tiles. Stores also feature state of the art screens and a sound system to play custom musical content, further enhancing the customer shopping experience. Browns Shoes uses an in-house designer for its stores. 

INSIDE THE SQUARE ONE STORE. PHOTO: BROWNS SHOES
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Browns currently operates 57 stores, and it will also open another five or six locations this year under its Browns and Browns Outlet banners, according to Senior Operations Manager Eric Ouaknine. Browns Shoes will open between four and six stores each year between 2017 to 2020, and the retailer is represented in Canada by brokerage Oberfeld Snowcap. 

Browns Shoes is a family-owned business, founded in 1940 in Montreal by Benjamin Brownstein. The company is now third-generation run. Stores feature designer brands as well as in-house brands including Mimosa, Browns Couture, The Wishbone Collection, Luca Del Forte, Intensi and B2. The B2 brand became so successful in its own right that it now boasts its own freestanding stores, which also carry various other designer brands. 

Ted Baker to Open 3 Canadian Locations this Year

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Craig Patterson
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TED BAKER AT YORKDALE SHOPPING CENTRE. PHOTO: CRAIG PATTERSON

Popular British fashion brand Ted Baker is confirmed to be opening three more Canadian stores this year — in Ottawa, Calgary, and an outlet in suburban Vancouver. When all stores are open, Ted Baker will boast six full-price and two outlet locations in Canada. 

The Ottawa Ted Baker store, at CF Rideau Centre, will open this spring. The 3,000 square foot store will be located on the mall’s third level, alongside strong co-tenants Kate Spade, Michael Kors, Tiffany & Co. and Harry Rosen, steps away from the entrance to the mall’s Nordstrom location, which opened a bit over a year ago. 

A Calgary Ted Baker location will open at CF Chinook Centre, in retail space recently vacated by fashion retailer Marciano. Chinook Centre’s Ted Baker location will measure 2,900 square feet and is strategically located between retailers Kate Spade and an Apple Store, alongside popular retailers such as Harry Rosen, Tesla Motors, Burberry and Michael Kors. Ted Baker fashions are also carried at Chinook’s Nordstrom, which was the Seattle-based retailer’s first to open in Canada in September of 2014. 

Ted Baker will also open its second Canadian outlet location this year at McArthurGlen Designer Outlets near Vancouver. Ted Baker is currently hiring for various positions at this store.  

Dianne Lemm, Principal/Broker at Northwest Atlantic, represented Ted Baker in the CF Rideau Centre and CF Chinook Centre negotiations. 

Ted Baker’s first Canadian location, measuring 3,230 square feet, opened in October of 2012 in an expansion of Toronto’s Yorkdale Shopping Centre. The retailer’s second Canadian location opened in October of 2014 at CF Toronto Eaton Centre, spanning 3,800 square feet. A 2,975 square foot Vancouver CF Pacific Centre location opened in June of 2015, and a third Toronto location, measuring 2,750 square feet opened last September at CF Sherway Gardens. Ted Baker’s only Canadian outlet store opened in August of 2013 at the Toronto Premium Outlets.

Eataly Manulife Plans Revealed — If it’s Not Cancelled

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Craig Patterson
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Popular Italian food concept Eataly intends to open its first Canadian location at Toronto’s Manulife Centre, according to multiple sources. If built, Eataly will occupy three levels at the centre, with most of its space being on a new second-level retail floor currently occupied by offices. An article in Friday’s Globe & Mail by Marina Strauss, however, indicates that the Bloor Street Diner, which operates in the centre, has won an injunction prohibiting Eataly from entering the complex. 

It’s still possible that the Bloor Street Diner will negotiate an agreement with Eataly’s Canadian operation, which is 52% owned by the billionaire Weston family (who also own Holt Renfrew, directly across the street). If Eataly were to open at Manulife Centre, we’ve located floor plans as to how it will be configured, submitted by B+H Architects to the City of Toronto several months ago. 

If it opens at Manulife Centre, plans show Eataly spanning three floors, with retail space on the concourse (basement), ground and second levels. A Bloor Street-facing ground level entrance would provide access upstairs via an elevator, staircase and escalators, and a concourse level retail space (with direct underground access to Holt Renfrew Centre across the street) would also provide Eataly access and signage. The vast majority of Eataly, however, would be on Manulife Centre’s second level, which would involve carving retail space out of existing offices. Eataly’s top level would feature frontage facing Bloor Street West, Bay Street and Balmuto Street. Plans indicate a retail space of approximately 39,000 square feet. 

If built, Eataly would be part of an overhaul to Manulife Centre’s retail podium, which is set to see its footprint expanded outwards along Bloor, Bay and Balmuto Streets. Renderings show glass-fronted facades as part of the expansion, with multiple new entrances, possibly for new retailers.  

Hopefully Eataly can come to an agreement with Bloor Street Diner’s parent company, paving the way for Eataly to open at Manulife Centre. It will be a great addition to a vibrant area that continues to see considerable new residential and retail development. 

Innovative Retail Entertainment Concept to Launch in Canada

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Craig Patterson
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French entertainment company and video game developer Ubisoft will open its first entertainment centre this summer in suburban Montreal. The child-friendly, 15,000 square foot video game-focused complex will be located in the heart of a major retail hub, acting as a place for parents to drop off children while adults shop nearby. Montreal’s Ubisoft centre will be the first in the world of its kind for the company.

According to CBRE Montreal Associate Vice President Gina Mastromonaco who negotiated the deal, the Ubisoft concept will launch across Canada as locations are secured, ideally near substantial retail nodes. The Montreal Ubisoft, for example, will be located at Méga Centre des Sources, a short drive from CF Fairview Pointe Claire shopping centre as well as nearby big box retail centres featuring anchors such as Costco, Canadian Tire, and Leon’s Furniture.

Ms. Mastromonaco said that a number of similar centres will be rolled out across Canada, ideally in areas featuring substantial retail activity that may include big box stores, busy shopping centres, and even outlet centres. Ubisoft’s child-friendly centres will therefore compliment existing retail nodes, creating an amenity for parents with children who might otherwise not be able to shop conveniently.

Ubisoft spent two years researching and planning for the new centre, which will be targeted to children under the age of 12. Parents may drop off their children at the centre, or even participate/watch activities. Scheduled to open in August, Ubisoft Montreal will draw on the company’s popular Rabbids video game franchise, and Ubisoft will release more details about the centre towards its opening date.

Farla Efros, President of leading consultancy HRC Advisory, said that the new Ubisoft entertainment concept is a great addition to the Canadian retail scene. Ubisoft’s centres will give families another reason to go out, with the child drop-off capability allowing parents some time to shop alone. This added shopping time will be particularly beneficial to some retail areas that have recently seen declines in foot traffic, given the increasing popularity of e-commerce, Ms. Efros noted.

Stefano Ricci Reveals 1st Canadian Store Renderings

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Craig Patterson
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Pricey Italian luxury brand Stefano Ricci has revealed renderings and a floorplan of its first Canadian location, which will open this summer in Vancouver. The beautiful looking 2,600 square foot store will be at 1139 West Georgia Street, next door to the city’s soon-to-be-completed Trump Tower. 

The store will be operated by franchisee Manuel Bernaschek, owner of Showcase Pianos, who is also now President of Stefano Ricci Vancouver.

According to an exclusive interview by Helen Siwak for Vancity Buzz, Vancouver’s Stefano Ricci store will feature a burled California walnut wood interior with custom millwork imported directly from Italy. The store will also feature a VIP back room with a handful of ‘very special items’. 

The store will feature Ricci’s pricey menswear as well as fragrances, accessories (such as leather goods and cuff links) and home goods such as porcelain and crystal dinner services, silverware and luxury linens. 

Founded as a tie manufacturing firm in Florence (by designer Stefano Ricci) in 1972, the family-run company strives for quality to the point of perfection, with prices to match. Attention to detail is key and the brand only uses the finest leathers, skins and fabrics. Prices can climb well into the thousands, with bags in exotic skins retailing for close to $50,000. The brand currently operates three North American locations — in New York City, Las Vegas and Beverly Hills. The remainder of its stores are in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. 

All photos were supplied to Helen Siwak by Mr. Bernaschek. 

Employment – Retail Construction Company Seeks Project Manager

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Retail Insider
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Leading Mississauga-based retail construction company Pace Construction is growing quickly, and is seeking a full time Project Manager to handle new business. The qualified candidate should have an excellent command of both written and spoken English, and be proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel and other Windows programs. The candidate must have a minimum of 10 years related industry experience, and must be a graduate with a degree obtained in Canada along with a working knowledge of the National Building Code as well as Provincial requirements.

Leadership and problem solving skills are a must, and the candidate must be a motivated self-starter, be able to budget for large and small projects, and manage all aspects of project from start to finish. The candidate will also promote a professional atmosphere in the office and on the job site. Negotiating contracts for projects tendered, managing sub trades, and managing client expectations will be part of the position. The candidate will also work with the Project Coordinator to coordinate estimating and maintenance/service work.

The job requires travel within Canada and to the US from time to time, so a valid passport is required. The employer is also looking for a strong candidate who can assist with marketing and obtaining new clients. All Health & Safety Certificates must be up to date including but not limited to WHMIS and First Aid.
 
Kindly forward your resume along with references and current contact information to Chris at: chris@pacecon.ca.

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