Vancouver Shopping

Vancouver is home to some serious shopping.

Granville Island is a popular spot for shoppers. Fresh food, local artists and bakers dominate. Locals take the False Creek ferries to get there.

Services

There are two underground levels of retail stores in Royal Centre, including a food court.

 
Royal Centre also had a 10-screen Cineplex Odeon theatre in the mall's lower retail level, which opened in 1981 and was closed and renovated in 1993 when the Royal Bank of Canada required additional space for its operations. The building has direct access to the Burrard SkyTrain subway station.

Pacific Centre is a shopping mall located in Vancouver, British Columbia. It is operated by Cadillac Fairview Corporation. Based on the number of stores, many of which are underground, it is the largest mall in Downtown Vancouver with over 250 stores and services. Anchor stores include Sears and Holt Renfrew, Sport Chek and Coast Mountain Sports among numerous other shops.

The mall is also connected to The Bay department store, Vancouver Centre Mall, a SkyTrain transit station, and the Four Seasons Hotel, a 385-room luxury hotel.

In 2006-2008, the mall underwent a major renovation project, with the constructin of a new Holt Renfrew store, a new food court and common area updating. Security for the center is provided by Concord Security and heating is provided via underground pipes from Central Heat Distribution.

The City of Vancouver approved an expansion of Pacific Centre, which will include retail premises that will extend to the street on the North and South sides of West Georgia Street. Included will be a station for the new Canada Line Skytrain subway.

New retailers for Pacific Centre are British Columbia's first Apple Store, an H&M flagship store, Teenflo, Browns shoes, Coach, Miss sixty and Energie.

Scotia Tower is a prominent skyscraper located at 650 West Georgia Street in Downtown Vancouver.

The 8th tallest building in the city, it stands at 138 m or 34 storeys tall and completed in 1977 and is a landmark skyscraper near the end of the central business district. The building houses Scotiabank operations for British Columbia and the underground Vancouver Centre, with its various shoppes and attendant street retail and theatres. The malls are linked to Pacific Centre and the Bay and a SkyTrain subway station via subterranean passages beneath Georgia and Granville Streets.

The Georgia and Granville corner of the site was the former location of the Birk's Store in Vancouver, an ornate Edwardian edifice that was torn down in 1974 to make way for construction of the Scotia Tower and Vancouver Centre. Birk's was the first tenant in the new corner-retail location after the Centre'es construction but has since moved to Granville and West Hastings; that location is now the main downtown store of London Drugs.

The Georgia Street side of the Scotia Tower-Vancouver Centre was the location of the old Strand Theatre, the only one of Vancouver's Theatre Row not directly on Granville Street. That movie house was later replaced by the Vancouver Centre Cinemas (now closed) in 1977.

TD Tower is located at 700 West Georgia Street in Downtown Vancouver and is connected to part of the Pacific Centre shopping mall.

The skyscraper stands at 127 m or 30 stories tall and was completed in 1972. The building houses TD Canada Trust operations in British Columbia.

When this tower was built, on the site of the former (and long-demolished) second Hotel Vancouver, its black-glass facing earned it the press sobriquet "the Black Tower", and with the toilet-white design of the adjacent Eaton's building (now Sears) it was widely viewed as an architectural disaster. The building is the home of Corus Radio Vancouver, as well as a number of law firms, including Farris, Vaughan, Wills & Murphy LLP and Alexander Holburn Beaudin & Lang LLP.

The TD Tower is one of the tallest buildings in in the city.

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