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Loblaw tests new store size to lure new urban customers

Calgary home to first 10,000-foot store to compete with new entrants in grocery market.

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Sears Canada may return 3 major Toronto locations to mall owners

Sears Canada Inc. could receive as much as $242 million for vacating up to three stores in major Toronto-area shopping centres — the latest example...

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Eastern-based grocery chain buys Canada Safeway for $5.8 billion

With one large move, Nova Scotia-based supermarket chain Sobeys has gone from a small player in B.C.’s grocery store market to one of the province...

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Sears applies to build seven towers at its Metrotown site

In a bid to unlock as much as $1 billion in potential value from its Metrotown location, Sears Canada has applied to the City of Burnaby for a rezoning...

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Ivanhoe Cambridge buys 47-storey Seattle office tower for US$390 million

MONTREAL - Ivanhoe Cambridge said Monday it has bought the Wells Fargo Center, a 47-storey office tower in Seattle, for US$390 million.

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First-quarter drop for Vancouver commercial real estate sales

The value of commercial real estate sales in the Lower Mainland dropped 40 per cent in the first quarter of 2013 from the same time last year, and was...

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Creativity, not panic, best reaction to U.S. retail expansion into Canada, report says

In face of continued American retail expansion into Canada, Canadian developers and property owners must take steps to ensure retail supply and demand...

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Retailers find there’s more space in Hong Kong than Toronto

What does Hong Kong offer retailers that Toronto doesn't have? Apparently more room for expansion

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Getting too expensive to buy commercial property in Vancouver

Valuations are getting so high in Vancouver's commercial market it is starting to affect deal flow, says a new report

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Loblaw back at $50 a share thanks to real estate plans

The return to $50 a share has occurred largely on the news that it plans to spin off the bulk of its substantial real estate holdings into a REIT

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