Elbows Out!
Fashionistas are eagerly awaiting this Thursday’s opening of the second H & M store at the Rockland Center. The existing store must be doing brisk business if they’re opening a second one but it seems almost a bit too much to have two H & M’s in the same mall when there isn’t even one downtown. So far, there’s still no news of a downtown location. It’s a bit of an inconvenience to trek “all the way” to Rockland. Especially since the H & M ads with Madonna and her (in)famous track suit are plastered all over the downtown core. I hadn’t been to Rockland in years until H & M opened there.
The shopping center has improved a lot from what I recalled of it. The renovated food court is spacious and bright with lots of comfy seats and there are a greater variety and number of stores than I remember from before. One of those being Banana Republic which up until now didn’t have a downtown location.
Banana Republic is expected to open their downtown store at the primo real estate corner of Ste Catherine and McGill College this Fall. Caban didn’t seem to be able to profit from the space in the converted bank building so it will be interesting to see how Banana Republic fares. I wonder what the opening day promos will be. Enticing enough to bring out the elbows?
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I hear Parasuco will also beopening up a flagship store downtown.
What kind of promo do *you* think is necessary for those kind of openings?
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H&M.. Can’t wait.
I have a feeling that H&M will be opening soon at the corner of St. Alexandre and Ste. Catherine, kitty-corner to the newly restored St. James United Church. Three retail spaces at the corner have been gutted, leaving an enormous area that is being briskly renovated by construction workers. This is a few months after the Gazette reported that H&M was planning to open on Ste. Cat near or east of University.
As for Caban, the whole chain is out of business. I don’t think the location had anything to do with its demise.
thank you! i was just in montreal for the first time and kept seeing the madonna posters and yet not seeing any sign of the store where i thought it might be tucked among the other downtown shopping centers. good to know i wasn’t nuts and it just wasn’t there!
also - as to the multiplicity of H&M locations - we just got our first west-coast one in san francisco and i’d only seen one in DC or Philly - but when i was in manhattan you can’t go more than a few blocks without tripping over one. or a gap for that matter - i swear, those things are like starbucks . . .