The developer behind Tsawwassen Mills unveiled a list of major tenants last Friday.
After virtually no tenant news since the mall was announced back in 2011, Ivanhoe Cambridge revealed a slew of anchor tenants for its mall under construction at the Tsawwassen First Nation. They include: DSW Designer Shoes, Forever 21, HM, Pro Hockey Life, Marshalls, Nike Factory Store, Old Navy, Sport Check, Tommy Hilfiger Outlet, Urban Planet/West 49 and Winners.
Other tenants announced last week include Aritzia, Banana Republic Factory Store,
Brooks Brothers Factory Store, Browns, Calvin Klein Outlet, Gap Factory Store, GUESS Outlet, Ever New, The Outlet by Harry Rosen, L'Occitane en Provence, Lucky Brand Jeans Outlet and Marc Cain.
Two restaurants - Milestones Grill Bar and Montana's Bar Grill - were also announced.
Bass Pro Shops was named as an anchor back in 2011, but it wasn't until earlier this year when Saks OFF 5th announced it would be locating an outlet store at the mall that even a second tenant was revealed for the 200-store mall.
"The list of retailers (revealed last week) is only a small sample of the full roster of stores that will be announced closer to the grand opening date," a press release from Ivanhoe Cambridge states.
The company says the mall's location and offerings will make it a retail destination of choice for shoppers from Greater Vancouver and the U.S. Tsawwassen Mills general manager Mark Fenwick said earlier this year that shoppers would drive upwards of two-anda-half hours to visit the mall.
Located at the corner of Highway 17 and 52nd Street, the 1.2-millionsquare-foot mall is scheduled to open Oct. 5. It will be mostly a fashion-oriented centre with a mix of outlet and other retailers.
It's based on Ivanhoe Cambridge's huge CrossIron Mills mall outside of Calgary and Vaughan Mills in the Greater Toronto area. Tsawwassen Mills is expected to have the same retailers as the other two.
The indoor mall will sit next door to Tsawwassen Commons, a 550,000-square-foot outdoor shopping centre with approximately 100 tenants, including Walmart, Canadian Tire and Rona.
Set to change the face of not only South Delta but the retail landscape of the entire Lower Mainland, the two malls will have a combined footprint almost identical to Metrotown.
Several of the future tenants at Tsawwassen Mills already have job postings.
A job fair is planned for late June. Tsawwassen Mills tenant businesses will also have a job fair that will exclusively target TFN members and members' spouses.
