Wrong about the location.
They are taking up the space infront of Sears to the Food Court:
The area in red is the area they are going to be putting the new bit of the mall.
As I understand it (I read the article in the paper about two months ago) they are going to dig down and put in two/three levels of underground parking and then build the mall on top of that. Plus they are going to build an pedestrian overpass from the mall - across macleod so that people can get from the train station to the mall easier. Crossing macleod can be a bitch sometimes. I dont know when it will be done, and I havent heard much about who is going to be entering the new spaces.
There is going to be a ton of new mall developement in an around Calgary. You have that new mall up in Balsac with a race track and casino thing. South Center is doing a huge revamp. Market Mall finished a renovation a while ago. Plus TD Square/Etons Center is getting a huge reno too. Since Sears moved out of their downtown location, apparently Holy Renfrew is moving into that space, then a bunch of new retaliers will move into the space that Holt Renfrew leaves behind.
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