Urban Planet lands at Polo Park
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MORE than a year and a half after McNally Robinson closed its bookstore at Polo Park Shopping Centre, the city’s biggest mall has finally turned the page on one of its largest spaces.
The 22,000-square-foot location in Polo Park’s basement, which has sat empty since the beginning of 2010, finally has a new tenant. Urban Planet, a clothing store targeting young men and women in the 15-to-24 age group, will rechristen the space on Nov. 25, just in time for the Christmas rush.
“We’ll let it be a surprise, but it will be a new concept, bigger and better in every way. It’s a monster store. It will be our Winnipeg flagship without question. We’ve been big fans of Winnipeg and Winnipeg has been fans of ours for many years,” said Eric Grundy, CEO of YM Inc., the Toronto-based parent of Urban Planet.
This will be the third and biggest store for Urban Planet in Winnipeg. It already has locations at Portage Place and at Kenaston and McGillivray boulevards.
Grundy described Urban Planet’s retail offering as “up-to-the-minute fashion”.
“Our store will receive new inventory and new styles on a weekly basis,” he said.
Construction crews, which have been on site for several weeks, have “gutted” the former bookstore and have recently started drywalling.
Deborah Green, general manager of Polo Park, said she was glad to have finally found a permanent tenant for the sixth-largest space at the mall.
“It was a challenge to find somebody who would take the non-mall space in the basement,” she said.
Even though Urban Planet is moving into lower level location, Green said it will benefit from having signage on the west side of the building and its own entrance.
She said she isn’t concerned that the mall won’t have a bookstore — a staple for many years at Polo Park — because book lovers can get their fix at Chapters at Polo Festival across Empress Street.
“Concepts come and go. A book customer is very different from what they were 10 years ago,” she said.
As part of the Urban Planet opening, YM is also closing its 3,000-square-foot Stitches location at Polo Park.
“That Stitches store has been one of our top producers. The natural evolution for us is to have an Urban Planet with a much bigger layout and to offer much more selection,” Grundy said, adding there are still Stitches stores at Kildonan Place, Garden City and St. Vital shopping centres.
With jewelry store Michael Hill moving into the long-time home of Broadway Florists, which moved to Academy Road last month, Green said Polo Park is now 99-per-cent full.
geoff.kirbyson@freepress.mb.ca