B2 - Sunday, December 23, 1984 - North Shore News

COQUITLAM CENTRE

Newcomer pushes
competition to act

From Page B1

Other malls followed suit,
with the trend snowballing
with the arrival of the
Christmas season. The deci-
sion of first) the junior
department stores and then
the province's five mayors
completed the trend = and,
with only a handful ot ex-
ceptions, wide-open Sunday
shopping became the rule

The Sunday opening tssue
was not the first instance in
which Coquitlam Centre set
the retail shopping centre

Mainland, with three major
department stores and 150
smaller ones. Due in part to
the mix of tenants scattered
throughout the two-storey
mall and due in part to strik-
ing architectural and design
features, it quickly became
established as a_ favcred
place to shop.

The centre proved that a
large-scale shopping centre
did not have to rely entirely
on the residential basis in
surrounding municipalities,
as had been the case, and
that shoppers throughout the
Lower Mainland would

of Coquitlam Centre, there
were a number of changes
across the Lower Mainland,
the most significant the
renovations and additions to
another suburban centre -—~
Guildford — located across
the Fraser River in Surrey.
While Coquitlam Centre
has established itself as
something of a leader —
first in size and philopshy
and then in Sunday opening
— the mall finds itself facing
growing compeunon. The
rebuilding of Oakridge and
the widespread Sunday
opening throughout the
Lower Mainland, among

stage on the Lower. make the trip to Coquitlam other events, seems to in-
Mainland — about half an hour trom dicate that the question of
the North Shore even in shopping ts going through a

When it opened not more — heavy traffic — if the attrac. major revision — 1n_ the
than five years ago, it was tion was night. minds of both the shoppers

the largest on the Lower In the wake of the opening = and the shop owners

o> ae,
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STAINED-GLASS skylights highlight the interior of Coquitlam Centre.

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