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Tsawwassen Mills to offer unique experience

It will be a unique mall unlike any other shopping experience in the Lower Mainland. That’s how Tsawwassen Mills has been described as it readies to draw a big crowd of shoppers to its Oct. 5 opening.
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Located at the Tsawwassen First Nation, just off Highway 17 and 52nd Street, the new mall will have 200 stores, including 16 anchor tenants.

It will be a unique mall unlike any other shopping experience in the Lower Mainland.

That’s how Tsawwassen Mills has been described as it readies to draw a big crowd of shoppers to its Oct. 5 opening.

Located at the Tsawwassen First Nation, just off Highway 17 and 52nd Street, the new mall will have 200 stores, including 16 anchor tenants.

The Ivanhoé Cambridge project is based on the company's huge CrossIron Mills mall outside of Calgary and Vaughan Mills in Greater Toronto.

The 1.2 million square foot indoor complex will be a mostly fashion-oriented centre with a mix of outlet and other retailers, but it will also have a wide range of other products and services. The mall is divided into several “neighbourhood” themes.

It has a 1,100-seat food hall, a children’s play area and even a section where husbands can sit and relax, watching sporting events on big screens, while their wives do some shopping.

In a presentation at the South Delta Probus Club earlier this year, Tsawwassen Mills general manager Mark Fenwick explained how the mall’s uniqueness will be a big draw.

"It's a first and very unique to the market. It's going to draw shoppers from the entire region, and when I say region, it's the whole of Greater Vancouver, Vancouver Island, northern Washington state, the interior of B.C.," he said. "This is a shopping centre that will have people drive upwards of two-and-a-half hours to come and visit.”

The new 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. The two malls will have a combined footprint almost identical to Metrotown.

Tsawwassen Commons will be opening in phases over the next few months.