A20 -‘Wednesday, July:29, 1981 - North Shore News

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OLD HOME WEEK FOR EX EASTERNERS

Auto shop hig

For many of the shoppers,
it's almost a nostalgia trip
when they wander through
the doors of the first time on
the North Shore Canadian
Tire store at the Norgate

Place shopping area on
Marine Drive in North
Vancouver.

Former Easterners are
enjoying renewing their
acquaintance with the

traditional auto shop of the
East, at this, the tenth
Canadian Tire store to be
opened in the Lower
Mainland.

The main store in Norgate
Place, the shopping area
consisting of two acres,
Canadian Tire consists of
seven service bays for autos
plus retail selling space

Also in the «shopping
complex is the newly located
Collegiate Sport along with
the Foam Shop. Baskin
Robbins (31 flavors) ice
Cream, a retailer to
North Vancouver and Kwik
Save

new
RZrocers, another
newcomer

Brownies Bned Chichen
and Vhe Muffin Break have
also leased space in the new
complen

Moving to (he West Coast
with a darge number of
Canadian Vire ots
expecting to place another
10) stores in the

stores,

Lower
Mainland bringing their total
to 20
The popular automotive
sales centre from back fast
carnies an cxtensive tine of
hardware and ac

cessortes for autos as well as

tools,

home and = hardware

sup

plies .  ¢lectncal supplies

small apphances. gardening.

Py

AN AERIAL VIEW of Norgate Place on Marine Drive in North Vancouver (Terry Peters photo)

sporting and
equipment.

In the auto line they carry
virtually all items at the
retail end, including their
own brand of tires plus a
service department that will
handle jobs from the
smallest to an engine
replacement.

Canadian Tire has over
300 locations across Canada
and is feeding their Lower
Mainland ° stores) from a
60,000 square foot computer
centre in Burnaby which will
be distributing merchandise
to satellite stores

The stores in BC
somewhat different | from
other Canadian Tire stores
across the country tin that
product hnes

fishing

are

are more
limited, with emphasis on
tures, baltemes, auto parts

and accessorics
hardware

and other

Vhe save of the stores are
somewhat smaller than their
bLastern

cousins Instead of

the convenbonal size of
about 25 000 square feet. the
majority of the B.C stores
have only 7,000 square [cet
of retail space plus the seven
service bays for a total of
about 13.000 square feet
While the

sound

figures may
smaller the

puterised

Com
Burnaby
warchousing centre will help
speed the flow and help save
space at the individual store
locavions

Within the year, ( anadtan
Tire will be capanding to
Vancouver Island
BC tntereor

Because of

and the

the cR
ceponally high land «costs i
BOC., the ownership set up

e :
for the stores has altered
from the traditional pattern
of individual store owner-
ship.

In B.C. group = store

ownerships was decided on
because of the high real

estate costs. Don Graham
formerly of Mississauga and
Vern Forster ane ex-
Haligonian are the owners of
the Lower Mainland fran-
chise while Lori Slack and
Daniel Brunt are the

Congratulations

to all our new tenants

Norgate Place
1300 block Marine Drive

space still available

- 840 sq. ft. for fast food retailer

-960 sqft. for retail outlet

call Aurla McGarvey - 687-7731

another development by

THE BAXTER GROUP

ill West Hastings St Vancouver | Canada

a

the North

managers of
Vancouver outlet.

The Baxter Group who
acquired and built the site

have been involved in
developing and managing
real estate projects across

the country since 1959.

The Vancouver based firm
have worked on all types of
properties including
commercial/industnial and
apartment sites as well as
regional shopping centres.

‘the specialists in compiete foam
beds with posture bases’

starting our 6th year
‘In North Vancouver in-the new

Norgate Piace

4oam mattresses and covers

-cut-to-size foam

-boat /Camper custom upholstery

camping foam

-fabrics and vinyls

opening special

foam
pillows

2 for

$9 95

1323 Marine Drive, North van.
980-8815