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GUILDFORD TOWN CENTRE AUGUST 28, 2013
GRAND OPENING Inside: • A chat with GM Peggy White – page 3 • Serving the Fraser Valley – page 4 • Surrey’s job hub – page 5 • Blasts from the past – pages 6, 9 and 14 • Living large and being green – page 8 • A city comes of age – page 10
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C E L E B R AT I N G G R A N D O P E N I N G • A U G U S T 2 8 , 2 0 1 3 • 9 : 3 0 A M • C E N T R E C O U R T
‘We can’t wait for it to happen’ 47-year-old Surrey mall is completing a major expansion phase and is set to show off its new look on Aug. 28 BY BOAZ JOSEPH
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eggy White recalls when the electronic counter outside the Guildford Town Centre (GTC) administration office read “460 days” to go. Now Zero Hour is approaching. In a project that has been planned for more than a decade – breaking ground in June 2010 – the 47-year-old Surrey mall is completing the second phase of a major expansion that will see 70 stores open tomorrow (Wednesday, Aug. 28) – among them 50 new retailers that include H&M, SEPHORA, Disney Store, The LEGO Store and Forever 21. The 213,500-sq.-ft., $280-million project includes improved accessibility, new signage and interior/exterior facilities, a BOAZ JOSEPH PHOTO new 1,034-seat food court, “living walls” in Guildford Town Centre General Manager Peggy White says the final days before the shopping complex’s official opening have Centre Court, and on the outside of the 104 been hectic, but exciting. Avenue overpass, a glass-enclosed elevator with a two-storey water wall (already open include at least 750 new permanent jobs mart Supercentre and a two-level parking wild ride for several parties, including to the public in Centre Court). upon completion. structure, both in place as of Oct. 28, 2011. the Ledcor Construction team, owner As the hours to the grand opening count White says that GTC business barely A gradual third phase, to be completed in Ivanhoé Cambridge, the leasing team, the down, the main focus for staff is the new slowed down during construction, and 2014, will include stores configured in the operations team and the mall marketing wing of retailers. expects it to double when the entire project popular racetrack design. team. “Just to get the product is completed. “Everybody who works in this mall can’t GTC Public and Community into the shopping centre is “I think it’s something that Surrey needs,” Relations Manager Petra Barker wait,” said White. “We can’t wait for it to a big job,” said GTC General happen, but we know we’re not done when White said. said mall staff themselves are Manager Peggy White. “Just we open on August 28th because we’ve still rolling up their sleeves to help imagine 70 tenants getting got another 24 stores to go.” retailers with last-minute cleandeliveries at the same time – When construction work is completed at up, unloading, unpacking and fixtures, product, clothing...” The grand opening of the Guildford the end of 2014, the centre’s gross leasing troubleshooting. With construction still Town Centre expansion kicks off Aug. 28 area will have increased from 980,000 to 1.2 To make sure there are no going on, shopping centre Peggy White with an official ceremony at 9:30 a.m. in million square feet, which will make it the hiccups in the system, the tenants still had to wear Centre Court. White is expecting upwards largest regional shopping centre south of mall’s escalators have also been safety equipment – such as of 60,000 people throughout the day. There the Fraser River. hard hats – in the final days before opening. overhauled and tested. will also be entertainment over the Labour The redevelopment has created about GTC completed Phase 1 of the huge “You can’t get into the expansion Day long weekend. 4,000 jobs during construction, and will project by adding a 149,000-sq.-ft. Walwithout it,” White said. The mall’s transformation has been a
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GRAND OPENING • AUGUST 28th 2013
Giving Burnaby ‘a run for their money’ Guildford Town Centre is now the largest shopping complex south of the Fraser BY SHARRON HO
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fter nearly three years of ongoing construction inside and outside the mall, a major part of the $280-million renovation of Guildford Town Centre will finally be unveiled to the public on August 28. According to Peggy White, Guildford Town Centre general manager, the grand opening will reveal a new 16-unit food court with 1,034 seats, new escalators, elevators, updated decor, and a new parkade with 1,800 more spaces. Seventy stores will also be introduced, including Disney Store, Forever 21, H&M, Aritizia, SEPHORA, Fossil and Guess. The expansion itself will increase Guildford Town Centre by 213,500 square feet and reposition the mall as the largest regional shopping centre south of the Fraser River. “We’re positioning ourselves as a regional shopping centre,” White said. “Metrotown is our sister mall and they have more stores than we do, so we wouldn’t
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The new food court at Guildford Town Centre will feature a 16-unit food court with 1,034 seats.
rival them, but we would certainly give them a run for their money.” However, the grand opening does not mark the end of construction, as more improvements are expected for 2014. Twenty-four more stores will open throughout 2014.
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GRAND OPENING • AUGUST 28, 2013
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echnically, Guildford Town Centre (GTC) can’t be called the largest employer in Surrey. But when you add up the numbers, the mall is the city’s biggest job hub. Peggy White, Guildford Town Centre general manager, said the shopping centre would be largest employer in Surrey if employees from all the tenants, shops and service providers were included in the calculation. “But unfortunately, each individual one has to report separately,” she said. Recently, even more workers came on board. The GTC hosted a job fair on June 27 at the Sheraton Vancouver Guildford Hotel, which saw 2,500 people show up. “It was attended very, very well,” White said. “It was busy all day.” A total of 750 permanent jobs were created with the shopping centre’s expansion, which includes full-time, parttime, entry-level and management positions. Aside from retail, the mall has also
been adding operational staff since the redevelopment first launched in June 2010. “We’ve had to increase our team over the years. It didn’t happen overnight,” White said. “As the construction evolved, the team got bigger.” A total of nine security guards have been brought in, and 11 people have been added to the guest services and counter staff team. Twenty housekeeping staff have also been hired to help sort through organic material for the shopping centre’s new compost recycling system. “We’ll be taking all the organics out, so we’ll be diverting a lot more of our waste that way,” White said. “If you just think of the food court alone, having to sort our waste, the manpower to do that is huge.” Throughout the redevelopment, nearly 4,000 jobs were created in the construction industry. When the mall expansion is open, the total number of full- and part-time employees working at GTC will number 4,000.
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C E L E B R AT I N G G R A N D O P E N I N G • A U G U S T 2 8 , 2 0 1 3 • 9 : 3 0 A M • C E N T R E C O U R T
Seeing 3D at Guildford Mall home to largest living walls in North America BY SHARRON HO
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n addition to undergoing one of the largest shopping centre expansions in Canada, Guildford Town Centre is now home to the largest “living walls� in North America. The massive external living walls – vertical gardens made up of plants – were installed on the 104 Avenue overpass and measure approximately 10,000 square feet in size. The wall which can be seen near 152 Street when travelling eastbound on 104 Avenue has been named Mountains and Trees, and the wall seen when westbound is Waves and Pebbles. Mike Weinmaster, chief designer at Vancouver-based Green over Grey, the company that installed the panels, said they are among of the most biologically diverse living walls on the continent, featuring
50,000 individual plants representing 110 different species. The exterior installation is just one of two in the world to have been placed over busy streets. The outdoor walls are comprised of B.C. native plants, locally adapted species such as lavender, ferns and flower shrubs, and tastier variations like strawberries, cranberries, huckleberries and blueberries. “Some of the larger plants will eventually grow six to eight feet out of the walls, meaning the art will become more and more three-dimensional as time goes on,� Weinmaster said. There are also interior living walls, located in Centre Court. They measure 1,500 square feet and contain close to 10,000 individual plants of 60 different species. Greenery
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used in the indoor walls include locally grown tropical plants such as banana and bromeliads – a member of the pineapple family. The lush foliage provides environmental benefits, including improved indoor air quality and biodiversity. “They also have been proven to help with the overall health and wellness of people,“ Weinmaster said, adding the walls also act as noise barriers and help with thermal regulation of the building by keeping the sun off the concrete. While the walls are an innovative approach to decor, they are no more difficult to maintain than a traditional flower bed. “The walls are maintained about once per month,� Weinmaster said Care of the walls involves trimming back plants as they grow and removing dead flowers and dust. The exterior walls are maintained by a rolling scaffold system that was engineered so the walls could be maintained without
having to close the streets to traffic below. Watch time-lapse videos of the 12-week planting process of the outside living walls at Guildford Town Centre: • Eastbound view: http://youtu.be/ WA2wgZohRAk • Westbound view: http://youtu.be/NLrDNaLfBg Other ‘green’ features at GTC: • LEED Gold certification for the shopping centre’s expansion area by 2014. • Bicycle storage and change rooms for retail tenants and staff. • A compost system in the food court. • Low-flow water fixtures. • Internal systems upgrades that have reduced energy consumption by 64 per cent and water use by 40 per cent. • Charging stations and room for electric vehicles. • All of mall property is non-smoking, including outdoors. • 400 trees planted.
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Moving forward – leaving a piece of history behind Time capsule embedded in mall foundation for future generations
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centre, catalogues featuring current styles, a history book of Surrey, and signatures of notable people. Planted into the concrete pour, the time capsule was buried in the expansion’s foundation on March 2, 2012, and will be left there indefinitely as a piece of history. “It was buried deep down underneath the expansion in a big plexiglass tube,” Guildford Town Centre General Manager Petty White said. “In this particular case, we put it underneath there for people to find many years from now – like hundreds of years from now. Just because it would be fun to find something different.” Inspiration for the time capsule came from the discovery of old Woodward’s food tunnels during the excavation of the expansion area. Woodward’s was the anchor department store at the mall when it first opened in 1966. The tunnels were once used to deliver groceries to vehicles several years ago. “We thought it would be good to put LEADER FILE PHOTO something back, so someone else could The Guildford Town Centre team hands 12”x24” find it at a later date,” White said. Bamboo Zeera a time capsule to Clarke Peters of LedcorLOOKS LIKE “It will neverWOOD be opened by any of us, 12”x24” Annex Tiles FEELS LIKE WOOD that’s for sure.” Construction Ltd.
he redevelopment of Guildford Town Centre has left behind a relic for future generations in the form of a time capsule, buried deep in the expansion’s excavation site. The time capsule contains a variety of different items relevant to the mall’s expansion and reminiscent of today’s era. The cache of goods includes coins from 2012, a letter from Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts to the future mayor and council, newspaper clippings, USB drives containing creative material about the shopping
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uildford Town Centre (GTC) is about to wrap up the second phase of a large-scale redevelopment. The milestone brings to mind how vital Guildford has been in Surrey’s overall development, from sprawling rural municipality to vibrant and fastgrowing city. The area of Surrey where Guildford is located was once known as the Hjorth Road district, named after the road that is now 104 Avenue. Until the construction of the Port Mann Bridge and Highway 1 in the early 1960s, it was a Surrey backwater. There was no commercial development. Properties were rural acreages, and there was just a scattering of residents. However, the opening of the freeway made it far more strategic, and British developers Grosvenor-Laing believed that the area could support a shopping centre. The nearby freeway meant that customers could come from as far away as Chilliwack. The plans for Guildford (the developers
came up with the name, based on Guildford in Surrey, England) were very ambitious. The developers envisioned a completely new city within Surrey, and some of it came to pass. There was the shopping centre, but there were also plans for residential development and community facilities. Many apartments were constructed quickly, but there was little in the way of community facilities for quite some time. Surrey had already gone ahead with an ice rink in Whalley (the first operated by the municipality) and there was not sufficient population for an indoor pool in North Surrey at that time. Perhaps the most important thing about early-day Guildford Town Centre was the fact that Woodward’s would be the anchor tenant. Newer B.C. residents don’t know what loyalty that company engendered. The B.C.-based department store chain was one of the most popular retailers, yet its nearest store was in New Westminster. see page 11
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GRAND OPENING • AUGUST 28, 2013 from page 10 Many residents of Surrey and areas further out in the Fraser Valley had little opportunity to shop there, but wanted to. Surrey had one department store, HamiltonHarvey, in the Riverside Shopping Centre, which wasn’t far away at 148 Street and 108 Avenue, But Woodward’s was in a completely different stratosphere. It was perhaps the best sign that Surrey was becoming a city. If Woodward’s felt that Surrey was worth locating in, others would as well. And that’s just what happened. A few years later, Eaton’s came to Guildford Town Centre, as the shopping mall expanded north of 104 Avenue. Surrey Place was built in Whalley, attracting The Bay and Simpson-Sears. No longer did Surrey residents have to cross a bridge to shop at major department stores. GTC was an instant success. It just kept growing, and the surrounding area developed. The shopping centre was
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Guildford Town Centre’s new main entrance. owned for years by Laing Properties and since 1999 has been owned by Ivanhoé Cambridge, which has redeveloped the buildings, created more parking and added more stores on the south part of the property. Prior to the opening of GTC, Surrey residents spent a lot of money in other communities. It wasn’t possible to get everything in Surrey easily, and there were few large stores. Guildford Town Centre gave the community a lot of pride and self-confidence. It was central to the rapid development of North Surrey as a residential community, and it was the first Surrey retail complex to attract a large number
of shoppers from other communities. On Aug. 28, the shopping centre will welcome the public to the official unveiling of its new expansion, part of a $280-million redevelopment. When construction work is completed at the end of 2014, the centre’s gross leasing area will have increased from 980,000 to 1.2 million square feet, making it the largest regional shopping centre south of the Fraser River. In three years, GTC will mark its 50th anniversary, and that milestone shouldn’t go unnoticed. The centre has been an integral part of Surrey’s growth.
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www.creativekidslearningcenters.ca Planting the Seed for Further Education™
FREE Driver Classroom Education Lesson is FREE and is held every second Wednesday 6:30pm-8:30pm. Register today 604-599-8767 or drivers@surdeldrivers.ca
Surdel Drivers School Ltd. provides integrated in-car and classroom learning experiences. All our instructors are approved I.C.B.C. Graduated Licencing Program Instructors & Gov`t approved Driver Training Instructors. Our instructors coach students, integrating learning through the classroom, the car and at home learning. Knowledge, Skills and Attitude will provide new drivers Learning Centre – Office with the tools to be a smart, skilled and knowledgeable driver for life. 212-8232 120th Street, Surrey Driving is 80% attitude, 10% info@surdeldrivers.ca – 604-599-8767 knowledge and 10% skill.
www.surdeldrivers.ca
Meet the New Kids On the Block! Creative Kids Learning Centers is expanding and opening its eighth location in the South Surrey Morgan Crossing area! Our new center will be located at 15850 24th Avenue, Surrey, B.C. Register Now! This brand new location will be offering the following programs, tailored for your child’s precious early years;
Full day Childcare for tots (36 months to 5 years)
Full day Infant & Toddler care (2 months to 36 months)
Summer camps Junior Kindergarten Before & After school care
providing transport to and from Sunnyside, White Rock Christian Academy and Star of the Sea.
Welcome to Rosemary Heights Seniors Village. Our beautiful facility is located in quiet South Surrey and offers both Assisted Living and Complex Care. Our residents are enjoying an independent lifestyle; meeting new friends and relaxing in their own bright, spacious suite with the added security of in-house personal care services, if and when needed.
Register by phone, online, or come by our OPEN HOUSE, Saturday, August 31, 9am-12pm. See you there! www.creativekidslearningcentres.ca | 604-560-5002
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www.BcDiesel.ca
GRAND OPENING • AUGUST 28, 2013
CUMMINS / DURAMAX / POWERSTROKE KEEP YOUR DIESEL WORKHORSE RELIABLE THIS SEASON Free Diesel Emission System Test included with All Maintenance & Service Specials!
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Unit # 114 14620 - 64th Ave Surrey 604.593.5377 1-877-339-7601
Success after setbacks In 1965, in a construction site accident, a slab of concrete fell and injured two workmen. Despite the accident and a labour dispute with tradesmen the following year, Guildford Town Centre was completed and opened in November 1966 – just two months after its originally scheduled launch.
Proud to celebrate the Grand Opening of Guildford Town Centre! Upgrade for fall and visit us for all of your back to school/back to business needs.
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π$5,000 Honda cash purchase incentive is available on select Honda vehicles. Honda cash purchase incentive will be deducted from the negotiated price before taxes and cannot be combined with special lease or finance offers. #Limited time 0.99% finance offer based on new 1013 Honda models and a 24 month finance term available only through Honda Canada Finance Inc. O.A.C. Finance example based on a new 1013 Civic DX model FB2E2DEX and a 48 month finance term available only through Honda Canada Finance Inc. O.A.C.: $16,935 at 0.99% per annum equals $189.19 bi-weekly for 48 months. Freight and PDI of $1,495 included. Cost of borrowing is $387.72, for a total obligation of $19,674.72. Down payment of $0.00, first bi-weekly payment, environmental fees and $0 security deposit due at finance inception. Taxes are extra. Finance on approved credit for qualified customers only. YLimited time lease offer based on select new 2013 Honda models and a 24 month lease term available only through Honda Canada Finance Inc. O.A.C. Lease example based on a new 2013 CR-V LX model RM3H3DES and a 36 month lease term available only through Honda Canada Finance Inc. O.A.C.: 0.99% lease APR for 36 months O.A.C. Monthly payment, including freight and PDI, is $394.69. Down payment of $0.00, first monthly payment, environmental fees and $0 security deposit due at lease inception. Total lease obligation is $14,208.84 Taxes, license, insurance and registration are extra. 72,000 kilometre allowance; charge of $0.12/km for excess kilometres. **MSRP is $36,630 / $27,630 / $31,630 / $25,630 including freight and PDI of $1,640 based on a new 2013 Pilot LX YF3H2DE / CR-V LX RM3H3DES / Odyssey LX 5AT RL5H2DE / Accord LX CR2E3DE and $16,935 / $16,075 based on a new 2013 Civic DX FB2E2DEX / Fit GE8G2DEX including $1,495 freight and PDI. Y/π/#/ π π Dealer may sell for less. Dealer trade may be required. For all offers license, insurance, applicable taxes and registration are extra. Offers valid from August 1st through September 3rd, 2013 at participating Honda retailers. Offers valid only for British Columbia residents and BC Honda Dealers locations. Offers subject to change or cancellation without notice. Terms and conditions apply. Visit www.bchonda.com or see your Honda retailer for full details.
DL#10482
15291 Fraser Highway, Surrey
604-227-5583 Mon-Thurs 9am-9pm • Fri-Sat 9am-6pm • Sun 12-5pm
For exclusive deals, follow: facebook.com/SurreyHonda twitter.com/HondaSurrey
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WE’RE READY TO BE AUGUST 28 H&M GUESS BENCH FOSSIL DISNEY STORE JUSTICE + MORE
THE NEW GUILDFORD TOWN CENTRE DEBUTING AUGUST 28 Find our coveted mix of stores and our spectacular food court in a beautiful new setting. It all adds up to an irresistible shopping experience. We’re positive you’ll fall hard and fast for the new GTC.
@ShopGTC Located at 104 Ave & 152 St
604-585-1565
GuildfordTownCentre.com