Halifax Retail

[icetea93]

Halifax Retales has announced that Lawton’s will be leaving Halifax Shopping Centre this August. This isn’t surprising as the mall is highly productive and has a limited amount of space to work with.

This vacant space along with the space beside it leftover from when Victoria’s Secret downsized will open up a prime 15,000 square foot space in a prime area. I suspect Uniqlo has already grabbed this space.

That makes me wonder what their strategy is with clearing tenants from around the Gap corner, another large parcel, and probably the only “quiet” corner left in the mall. Another tenant that should be next for Halifax based on national expansion is Abercrombie & Fitch who has recently has a huge rebrand and resurgence and announced new stores in Ottawa, Winnipeg and London ON recently.

[HalifaxRetales]

I kinda thought the GAP corner was being setup for Uniqlo
but agree this new corner also couild be it

while not confirmed it very much feels when versus if for Uniqlo

Originally Posted by icetea93

Halifax Retales has announced that Lawton’s will be leaving Halifax Shopping Centre this August. This isn’t surprising as the mall is highly productive and has a limited amount of space to work with.

This vacant space along with the space beside it leftover from when Victoria’s Secret downsized will open up a prime 15,000 square foot space in a prime area. I suspect Uniqlo has already grabbed this space.

That makes me wonder what their strategy is with clearing tenants from around the Gap corner, another large parcel, and probably the only “quiet” corner left in the mall. Another tenant that should be next for Halifax based on national expansion is Abercrombie & Fitch who has recently has a huge rebrand and resurgence and announced new stores in Ottawa, Winnipeg and London ON recently.

[connect2source]

I wonder if JD Sports is eyeing the HSC. I know they plan to open in the big Dartmouth mall but I could easily see them opening up two locations in the HRM. They've been expanding very aggressively in other Canadian markets.

[icetea93]

Originally Posted by connect2source

I wonder if JD Sports is eyeing the HSC. I know they plan to open in the big Dartmouth mall but I could easily see them opening up two locations in the HRM. They've been expanding very aggressively in other Canadian markets.

I’m sure they are, but I don’t think they’d be too high on the radar for HSC compared to what other brands likely want space. With sportchek/atmosphere already and JD already exisiting in the city, I think they’ll continue to focus on new to Atlantic Canada fashion retailers

I have often wondered though if HSC were to expand, if demand was there, how they would do so…

[connect2source]

Originally Posted by icetea93

I have often wondered though if HSC were to expand, if demand was there, how they would do so…

There are plans in the works to re-develop the Mumford Transit terminal across the street with several towers. Logically, this would be a great area to expand the HSC retail footprint with perhaps an outdoor lifestyle pedestrianized retail area. Other than that they could expand the existing mall by putting areas of the parking underground. HSC is performing well and an expansion would ensure Halifax gets new-to-market retail that other similar sized cities are currently getting.

I still feel putting Winners in such a prime spot was an error, I'm confident if Simons was aware of Hudson's Bay's demise at the time of leasing they would have created a larger store with perhaps two floors.

[icetea93]

Originally Posted by connect2source

There are plans in the works to re-develop the Mumford Transit terminal across the street with several towers. Logically, this would be a great area to expand the HSC retail footprint with perhaps an outdoor lifestyle pedestrianized retail area. Other than that they could expand the existing mall by putting areas of the parking underground. HSC is performing well and an expansion would ensure Halifax gets new-to-market retail that other similar sized cities are currently getting.

I still feel putting Winners in such a prime spot was an error, I'm confident if Simons was aware of Hudson's Bay's demise at the time of leasing they would have created a larger store with perhaps two floors.

Good points. HSC is the premier mall of Atlantic Canada, and they’re at the point of having to boot retailers to make room for more in-demand ones. It’s also much smaller than most premier malls in other markets, so they could use some extra square footage for sure.

[Haliguy]

Originally Posted by connect2source

There are plans in the works to re-develop the Mumford Transit terminal across the street with several towers. Logically, this would be a great area to expand the HSC retail footprint with perhaps an outdoor lifestyle pedestrianized retail area. Other than that they could expand the existing mall by putting areas of the parking underground. HSC is performing well and an expansion would ensure Halifax gets new-to-market retail that other similar sized cities are currently getting.

I still feel putting Winners in such a prime spot was an error, I'm confident if Simons was aware of Hudson's Bay's demise at the time of leasing they would have created a larger store with perhaps two floors.

I always figured they would connect the 1st level together around the back of the mall from the food court to where the Dollarama is.