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Sears Canada Inc. was a publicly-traded Canadian company affiliated with the American-based Sears department store chain. In operation from 1952 until January 14, 2018, and headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, the company began as Simpsons-Sears—a joint venture between the Canadian Simpsons department store chain and the American Sears chain—which operated a national mail order business and ...
Constructed of pre-cast concrete skinned in dark brown brick veneer, it was designed in the Brutalist style by architect Maxwell Miller as the head office of Sears Canada, a department store chain. It has 58,336 square metres (627,920 sq ft) of gross floor area.
Throughout the 21st century, retail businesses in Canada have felt the pressures of foreign store expansions into the country, as well as a shift towards online retail. As a result, closures have been a mix of stores unique to the nation, as well as newcomers like Target Canada.
Sears, Roebuck and Co., commonly known as Sears (/ s ɪər z / SEERZ), [5] is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald, with what began as a mail ordering catalog company migrating to opening retail locations in 1925, the first in Chicago. [6]
Garden City Shopping Centre is a single-level shopping centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, located at the intersection of McPhillips Street and Leila Avenue. [1] Built in 1970, it was opened on August 12 that year. [2] With an area of 379,681 sq ft (35,273.5 m 2), [3] the mall consists of 70 stores and 10 restaurants on a single level.
Original tenants included McDonalds, Subway, Miracle Mart, and the now defunct Sears Canada which used to be a major anchor. Sears Canada originally operated as a full line Sears within the mall that opened on September 28th, 1977; then was converted to a Sears Home store (selling furniture and appliances) and in recent years as a Sears Outlet ...
Sears Canada briefly ran the department store as part of an upscale eatons mini-chain but by 2002 the store was rebranded to Sears. Sears Canada converted the uppermost four floors of the nine-storey department space to corporate offices, replacing their previous headquarters at 222 Jarvis Street, and the lowest floor was converted to mall ...
North Hill Centre is a shopping mall in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.It opened in 1958, and was Calgary's first shopping mall. [1] The original anchor tenant was Simpsons-Sears (later Sears Canada), but it closed on January 8, 2018 and has since been replaced by Showhome Furniture.