Home Hardware to add Burnside location
A new Home Hardware store will be opening later this year in the space formerly occupied by a Salvation Army retail outlet and before that, an Oakcrest Foods supermarket.
A Home Hardware outlet will be the newest tenant in Burnside-Tillicum's Albion Mall. Photo by Robert Randall © VibrantVictoria.ca.
Workers are currently renovating the former thrift store in the Albion mall at 50 Burnside Road in Saanich about half a kilometre east of Tillicum Centre. It will be the third Vancouver Island Home Hardware operated by Sooke’s Gertsma family.
Founded in 1967, Home Hardware is a co-operative wholesaler, owned by over 1,000 independent operators. This will be the chain’s sixth Victoria-area store. Home Hardware’s other local outlets are in Sooke, Sidney, Saanichton, the Fairfield Plaza and Oak Bay Avenue.
General retail news is discussed on a dedicated thread here on VibrantVictoria’s forum.
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The five most recent replies to VibrantVictoria.ca's discussion forum's Official Retail thread thread, the most relevant thread to the above headline or article:
VicHockeyFan
Aug 27, 2010 at 9:37 amI went to Urban Barn yesterday but it wasn't there. Island Furniture Bazaar has moved in. I guess UB is open now at Uptown.
gumgum
Aug 27, 2010 at 1:12 pmYes it's open and located directly under Future Shop.
Dylan Leblanc
Aug 31, 2010 at 11:31 pmThe vacant store front on the SE corner of Fort and Cook has been leased.
gumgum
Sep 01, 2010 at 7:51 am^Didn't Miss B say it was to be a yoga studio?
Ms. B. Havin
Sep 01, 2010 at 9:57 pm^ Yes.
It's some kind of mixed martial arts with yoga thrown in. (Wait, that doesn't sound right... haha...)
All that has happened so far is that the interior has been painted white. I can remember when the present Bottle Depot at Vancouver and View was a martial arts "studio" (circa 2003 or so), and the Fort & Cook location has about the same vibe, except for its big plate glass windows.
Hope they make it, but it doesn't look very attractive right now.
