Inside the unlikely reinvention of the Canadian department store

by Jeff Brooke

As of April 25, all of Hudson’s Bay’s 80 department stores are in active liquidation, along with its Saks Fifth Avenue and Saks OFF 5th locations​. That’s millions of square feet of new vacancy that can be transformed into multiuse spaces.

The perfume counters are gone. So are the escalators and the endless racks of men’s polos, blenders and bedsheets. In their place: the pop of a plastic ball, the squeak of sneakers and a flood of laughter.

Welcome to the reinvention of the Canadian department store.

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