A U.S.-based sister chain to Winners will open its first Canadian stores next year, including one in the now defunct Circa nightclub in Toronto’s Entertainment District, the property owner has confirmed.
The Circa site is one of at least four scheduled to open next year as Marshalls makes its move into Canada, the chief executive of RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust said in an interview.
“We have re-leased it to a Marshalls,” RioCan president and chief executive officer Ed Sonshine said of the former nightclub space located on John Street between King and Richmond streets.
The first three Marshalls are set to open next spring, one at Warden and Eglinton, one at the Colossus Centre at highways 407 and 400, and one in the Durham Centre in Ajax, he said.
The store in the former Circa club will not open until later in 2011.
Marshalls is similar to Winners in that it carries mainly off-price brand-name clothing and housewares.
It carries a somewhat broader range of goods than a typical Winners, but not as much as a department store, said Wendy Evans, president of consulting firm Evans & Company, |
