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The Cape Breton Post

SYDNEY — Another new Mayflower Mall tenant will open its doors Thursday, as the shopping centre marks its grand reopening.

Future Shop, a retailer of consumer electronics, has a number of special events and promotions planned to mark the opening of its newest location, including giveaways and appearances by former Maple Leaf Wendel Clark and cartoon character Lisa Simpson.

In recent months, Sport Chek, an expanded Music World, Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory and Ricki’s have opened inside the mall, with Fairweather, The Rolling Phones and Winners expected to open soon.

Burnac Corp. is spending $10 million to covert 120,000 square feet of retail space just for Sport Chek, Future Shop and Winners alone.

The 20,000 square foot store Future Shop location will host Appearance and Autograph signing Saturday for families with cartoon character Lisa Simpson frm 1-3 p.m., while Wendel Clark will appear and sign autographs on Sunday from 2-4 p.m.

Future Shop has 125 stores across the country.

The 26-year-old Mayflower Mall employs 800 people, and will hold an invitation-only reopening Thursday for mall and store employees, which will be capped off with a fireworks display at 10:30 p.m. in the parking lot of the old Sobeys building.