Giant Tiger coming to Tecumseh Mall

Tecumseh Mall management is hoping shoppers will roar for the mall’s next retailer: Giant Tiger. The Canadian discount store chain is set to open a new location in what used to be the Zellers space in the eastern section of Tecumseh Mall (7654 Tecumseh Rd. E.).

Colleen Conlin, Tecumseh Mall’s general manager, said the Giant Tiger store will occupy 25,000 square feet of the space and should be opening for customers around September.

The mall had been seeking tenants for the space since Zellers left in 2013.

Conlin said Giant Tiger won’t be the only new feature in that section of the mall. There’s enough space left for another tenant, the name of whom Conlin can’t reveal yet.

Conlin said the mystery tenant will occupy 18,000 square feet. She’ll be able to provide more information in June.

Conlin said that the other discount general retailer currently in the mall — Dollarama — has no plans on leaving.

As for the western section of Tecumseh Mall, the former Sobeys supermarket location, Conlin said yet another new tenant is in the works, hoped to be secured by the start of 2019. Combined with the six new stores that opened in Tecumseh Mall last fall — including the indoor trampoline fun park Sky Zone — these announcements show it’s an exciting time for the shopping centre, Conlin said.

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