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This $500-million spaceship stadium will host VR events, concerts and e-sports tournaments
As a vice-president of MLSE in the late 1990s, Chris Overholt helped launch one of Toronto’s biggest venues, the Air Canada Centre. Now, amid a pandemic that’s halted live sports and entertainment, he’s developing another: a $500-million complex on the Exhibition grounds that includes a 7,000-seat hall in the shape of an undulating spaceship, as well as a 400-room hotel and, if all goes according to plan, a restaurant from the people behind the Chase.
Two more Vancouver locations are currently in negotiation.
The brand is looking to support local artists and communities by featuring interior and exterior murals by local Vancouver artists and selling mural-themed merchandise in conjunction with Vancouver Mural Festival.
“It was a welcome chance for Artigiano to refresh our brand as well as expand,” says Artigiano owner Dean Shillington.
“Not only does moving into these abandoned locations make good business sense, it strengthens local communities by keeping those spaces open and keeping people employed. In addition, it has allowed Artigiano the opportunity to collaborate on a larger scale with the Vancouver Mural Festival (VMF) in support of the local arts community, which, like the hospitality sector, has taken a terrible hit during the pandemic.”
Michael Going, founder and CEO of Good Earth Cafes Ltd., confirmed to Dished that the company is looking to take over a number of shuttered Starbucks locations, starting with spaces in Ontario.
“Our big push right now is into the GTA, we’re definitely looking to take a number of locations with the Toronto region and probably down into southwestern Ontario as well,” Going told Dished.
“We don’t have a number, we’re just looking at the real estate. We’re looking at not taking over some of their poorer [performing] locations; we’re looking at ones that have strong traffic and sales for them.”
Calgary coffee chain plans to take over abandoned Starbucks locations in Toronto
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The mass closure of Starbucks stores across Toronto marks a new era of coffee chains in the city specifically, companies hoping to capitalize on the footprint left behind by the Seattle megabrand.
Calgary-based chain Good Earth Coffeehouse has announced that it intends on expanding across the country by moving into empty stores that Starbucks left behind.
The brand, which has been around since 1991, confirmed to Retail Insider that it s hoping to fill a void following more than 25 Starbucks closures across Toronto and nearly 300 Canada-wide.
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