CALGARY – Calgary’s Chinook Centre is on the top 10 list of most productive shopping centres in North America for 2013, according to publication Retail Insider in a new report.
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Paige O’Neill takes over as Calgary’s Chinook Centre general manager
CALGARY — As a teenage girl Paige O’Neill enjoyed the back-to-school shopping experience with her mother.
Never in a million years would she have thought at that time that she would one day be looking after one of the country’s most popular and top-producing shopping centres.
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Nordstrom expansion opens space for more retailers at Chinook Centre
CALGARY — The expansion of American retail giant Nordstrom to Chinook Centre next year will open the door for more first-to-market retailers at the popular Calgary shopping mall.
Eve Renaud, property manager at Chinook Centre, said Nordstrom will be taking up 140,000 square feet of the 180,000 square feet formerly occupied by Sears at the north end of the mall.
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Here’s a twist: Developers ask residents what stores they want
Developers are increasingly using social media and online surveys to ask area residents what businesses they want in their neighbourhood, turning away from traditional market research that determines what types of stores might draw customers.
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Chinook Centre reaching new record sales heights
CALGARY — Calgary’s Chinook Centre has reached a new record level for sales at the shopping mall as it continues to change it retail mix with new stores opening this year.
Eve Renaud, property manager at Chinook Centre, told the Herald the 1.2 million-square-foot mall hit the $1,108 sales per square foot figure in February, which was a six per cent hike from last year. That level puts it in the same category as national shopping malls Yorkdale and Pacific Centre.
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Primaris buying Sherwood Park Mall
TORONTO — Primaris Retail REIT said Friday it is buying a portfolio of shopping centres in Edmonton and Medicine Hat for $377 million.
The real estate investment trust says it will acquire nine properties owned by Sherwood Park Mall Ltd., Markalta Developments Ltd. and Sleeping Bay Building Corp.
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Investors Strip Malls Off Shopping Lists
When mall company Macerich Co. MAC 0.00% walked away from the aging Valley View Center mall in Dallas, investors holding securities tied to the $125 million mortgage were left in the lurch.
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