INAC-Indigenous Nation Apparel Company looks to have a soft opening in June. It is the exact thing that Polo Park might want to have to distinguish it from other malls. If the mall wants to be different, it has to have stores no one else has. Or attractions no one else has.
Polo Park always has St. Vital Centre or Kildonan nipping at its heels. It has mostly maintained its edge but has let others close in on it. The loss of Sears and the space it occupied was an existential threat. When Zellers closed, it was an opportunity and the mall welcomed stores that were waiting for such space. Those days are long gone.
The new Sears will have a furniture store in it which will be a first for the mall. It remains to seen what sort of access through the mall to the old Sears there will be.
The old second floor entrance now looks like this,
INAC should be fully ready by July and I suspect much of the mall will start looking in shape for the first time in 18 months.
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