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TossYourJacket · Friday at 11:02 PM

torontowest91 said:
probably due to theft - don't want to make it easy for thieves to grab and run out the exit

Are people way more prone to rob an Aritzia than the Alo yoga across the hall? I don't doubt that it's the reason they did it (I'm sure you're totally right on the logic there), but it feels like if Alo can have display windows so can Aritzia. I get not having an entrance there, but windows would have been better than the blank wall we got.

nightstreak · Saturday at 1:40 AM

My cynical take is that Cadillac Fairview prefers it this way.

This could be a fantastic outdoor space with cafes on both ends. But the customers… they would be *outside*. Mall owners want to keep people inside for as long as they can get away with.

There’s a well known tactic employed by department stores that the omission of windows is deliberate. You don’t want people seeing that it’s getting dark and it’s time to go home or that it’s sunny outside and maybe we should go out for a walk.

Then again, I question Cadillac Fairview’s tactics. For the longest time there was little to no seating in the mall. You know what I do when I get tired? I go home. Give me a seat to rest for a bit and you’ll get me shopping for a lot longer.

Maybe the same is going on with these outdoor spaces. CF thinks keeping them dead draws people inside but instead it could be keeping people in the vicinity of the mall for longer.

nightstreak · Saturday at 7:29 PM

To further add to this cynicism, this is what this terrace used to look like not too long ago (2021):

Eaton Centre even promoted it back then:

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When also considering that the stores facing Yonge Street have mostly all closed their exterior doors in recent years and places like the bakery and BMO have walled up their windows, it's starting to become clear that a new direction in management around that time started to turn the mall inwards.

nightstreak · 2026-04-27T04:25:15+0100

Update on Club Monaco:

Cadillac Fairview has updated their leasing plan to change Club Monaco to "UNKNOWN". That's an unusual denominator, their spaces either have the name of the tenant or "VACANT".

Before: