May 8, 1992

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TO RAISE funds towards upgrading the community track and field facilities at Handsworth Second-
ary School, a jog-a-thon will be run by Montroyal Elementary students (including, front ieft to right,
Gavin Hobbs, Cambrea Buchamer and Christine Kennedy) on May 12 anc by Handsworth students on
June 4 and 5 (back row, Olympian Charmaine Crooks, left, and UBC Athlete of the Year Lori Dur-
ward, second from right, keep in step with Handsworth students Bryan Jefferey and Jennifer

Mustard).

Massive $20M Park Royal upgrade
will change gateway to West Van

Royal’s south mall will include the

AFTER NEARLY a year in the planning stages, a massive
$20 million redevelopment of West Vancouver's Park

Royal Shopping Centre finally began this week.

The north and south malls of
the 42-year-old shopping centre
will change dramatically during
the shopping centre’s major
facelift.

Park Royal director Rick
Amantea said Thursday that Van-
couver-based PCL Constructing
Pacific Inc. has been awarded the
general contract for the

By Surj Rattan
News Reporter

redevelopment project.

The company, he said. has
moved onto the site to begin the
physical job of changing the look
of Park Royal.

The new additions to Park

Market at Park Royal public
market, which, Amantea said, will
offer specialty items. It will be
located between the existing Super
Valu and Eaton’s stores.

Super Valu will continue to
operate from its present location.

Amantea said construction of
the public market, which will
house about 20 stores, will start in
June and should be completed by
Dee. 1.

Also planned for the shopping

centre’s south mail is a new 350-
seat food court, which is expected
to be completed in the spring of
1993.

Amantea said the government
specialty liquor store now located
in the south mal! has indicated to
Park Royal management that it
wants to move to the shopping
centre’s north mall.

Negotiations over that move, he
said, are still under way.

The future of the Woodward's
Food Floor cutlet in Park Royal's
north mall is also uncertain, said
Amantea.

Negotiations over its fate are
continuing with Canada Safeway,
the food floor’s operators.

Amantea said the existing exte-
tior face of the shopping centre's

forth mall will change substantial-
ly.

“We're going to build seven
free-standing buildings which will
give it a retail Jook,’’ said
Amantea. ‘‘We want to give a
fresher look to the traffic along
Mariae Drive. There will be a sea-
scape feel to it."”

The total number of Park Royal
retail outlets will increase from the
current 200 to about 225.

The entire $20 million Park
Royal redevelopment project is
slated to be completed in the
spring of 1993.

Park Royal was purchased in
1990 by the Larco Group of
Companies from British Pacific
Properties Ltd. for about $160
million.