Winners, the TJX Companies off-price fashion and home goods banner, anchors Woodgrove Centre in Nanaimo, British Columbia, the Island Highway North commercial corridor’s primary enclosed regional mall on Vancouver Island, giving the property a comparison-shopping anchor for the Nanaimo, Lantzville, Parksville, and Oceanside household on Vancouver Island’s eastern coastal corridor, where the Island Highway residential consumer base accesses Woodgrove as the primary enclosed comparison-shopping format between the Victoria metro to the south and Campbell River to the north. The property serves the Vancouver Island household as the everyday retail destination whose off-price fashion floor and daily-needs services give the Island consumer an alternative to the BC Ferries crossing to the Lower Mainland for a mall shopping trip the Island’s growing population increasingly makes at home.
Sephora, Lush, The Body Shop, and Bath & Body Works serve the prestige and accessible beauty categories. Sport Chek and West 49 give the property a sporting goods and action sports floor appropriate for the Vancouver Island outdoor lifestyle: mountain biking on the Nanaimo River and Cumberland trail networks, surfing at Rathtrevor and Parksville beaches, and skiing at Mount Washington Alpine Resort north of Courtenay. Eddie Bauer serves the outdoor apparel category. Specsavers Woodgrove Centre serves the optical category. Sunrise Records serves the Canadian music and pop culture retail category. Tim Hortons anchors the daily café occasion.
Northern Reflections, La Vie en Rose, Ricki’s, Old Navy, RW&CO., BOOTLEGGER, and Urban Planet cover the accessible and Canadian women’s fashion floor. Peoples Jewellers and Michael Hill serve the fine jewelry and gifting floor. Bell, Rogers, Fido, TELUS, Koodo, WOW, and WIRELESSWAVE give the property a full BC telecom carrier presence. The property’s commercial role on Vancouver Island is the Nanaimo Island Highway North enclosed mall: a Winners off-price anchor whose Sport Chek outdoor identity, Sephora beauty floor, and Canadian fashion register serves the Vancouver Island central corridor household as the primary comparison-shopping format for the Island’s second-largest city.
