He gazes up at the soaring glass ceiling on the mall's new wing, which is located where the old Eaton's store once was, on the mall's east side. "The idea was to create a contemporary, urban shopping experience," says architect Chris Brown, of the Canadian architecture firm MMC International. So will a trip to the new Yorkdale be romantic at all? What will set it apart from the iconic downtown outpost the Eaton Centre and the value-oriented suburban newcomer Vaughan Mills?Ī hard-hat tour of the expansion last week revealed that Yorkdale, which was last renovated in 1997 to add a 10-screen theatre, aims to set itself apart from uppity competition by offering a shopping experience that's sort of like shopping on Bloor St., minus the weather. Not that there's anything wrong with those stores, but it does appear that Toronto's three major malls now house many of the same retail tenants.Īltogether, there will be more than 40 new stores and 16,700 square metres of new retail space. Yorkdale's expansion will add increasingly common fashion retailers H&M, Zara, Tristan & America, Transit, Urban Behavior, United Colors of Benneton, Old Navy, Sunglass Hut and Tommy Hilfiger, among others, to the Yorkdale shopping experience. Other new-to-Canada retailers setting up shop at Yorkdale include the Spanish women's fashion retailer Mango, which follows the H&M and Zara formula of up-to-the minute fashions at too-cheap-to-say-no prices Geox, the Italian shoe brand known for its stylish and technologically advanced "no-sweat" shoes, and Billabong, the clothing label with a youthful, surfer vibe.Ī new Sephora store, bigger than the only other Toronto location at Eaton Centre, and the first mall location for the rapidly expanding Canadian yoga wear brand Lululemon will also be meccas for uptown shoppers.Īs for the rest of the stores, well, we've seen many of them before. And even though Apple won't be open in time for Yorkdale's official unveiling at 9:30 Wednesday morning — it's set to open in mid-May — the computer and electronics store is the most exciting name on the list of stores set to debut there this spring. The mall with the chi-chi reputation and the highest sales per square foot of any enclosed mall in Canada has the clout to attract major new retailers to Canada. I spent an entire afternoon there even though I didn't actually buy anything."
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"I have a Mac fetish, so I'll probably be spending a lot of time there. "I heard there's an Apple store coming," says Amy Cohen, 21, a student who visits Yorkdale about once a week. When Yorkdale Mall spends $61 million renovating and adding new stores, diehard shoppers get excited. Yorkdale's $61 million facelift opens next week
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