[CoryB]

You may be correct.

The lease plans for Northgate list Save-On-Foods as 65,367 sq ft.

The Shindico site lists the entire leasable area as 225,000 sq ft and calls out the 56,000 sq ft Access Centre.

Even if the Access Centre is counted separately from the 225,000 sq ft the Northgate store would be about 25% off the mall. If the Access Centre space is removed it would be even larger, about a third of the mall.

It might be that the location is still going to be an "International" store but with a smaller footprint than Northgate. For example delete the craft candy section at the back, make the eating area smaller or eliminate it, delete the Starbucks, move the seafood to the outer wall. Replace the open coolers with upright coolers. Tighten up some of the aisle spacing the the produce section.

There is one of the things that really stands out about the McPhillips location -- there is a lot of "open" space. I know one Superstore redesign that made their aisles slightly narrower to fit in on or two more and created hard stop areas with structural posts in them now. It is something surprising how much "open" space grocery stores need.