August 27, 2013

Tuesday, August 27, 2013 Surrey/North Delta Leader 1

Getting ready to make a splash

GUILDFORD TOWN CENTREAUGUST 28, 2013

Inside:• A chat with GM Peggy White – page 3

• Serving the Fraser Valley – page 4

• Surrey’s job hub – page 5

• Blasts from the past – pages 6, 9 and 14

• Living large andbeing green – page 8

• A city comes of age– page 10

GRAND OPENING

2 Surrey/North Delta Leader Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Peggy White recalls when the electronic counter outside the Guildford Town Centre (GTC)

administration offi ce read “460 days” to go.Now Zero Hour is approaching.In a project that has been planned for

more than a decade – breaking ground in June 2010 – the 47-year-old Surrey mall is completing the second phase of a major expansion that will see 70 stores open tomorrow (Wednesday, Aug. 28) – among them 50 new retailers that include H&M, SEPHORA, Disney Store, The LEGO Store and Forever 21.

The 213,500-sq.-ft., $280-million project includes improved accessibility, new signage and interior/exterior facilities, a new 1,034-seat food court, “living walls” in Centre Court, and on the outside of the 104 Avenue overpass, a glass-enclosed elevator with a two-storey water wall (already open to the public in Centre Court).

As the hours to the grand opening count down, the main focus for staff is the new wing of retailers.

“Just to get the product into the shopping centre is a big job,” said GTC General Manager Peggy White. “Just imagine 70 tenants getting deliveries at the same time – fi xtures, product, clothing...”

With construction still going on, shopping centre tenants still had to wear safety equipment – such as hard hats – in the fi nal days before opening.

“You can’t get into the expansion without it,” White said.

The mall’s transformation has been a

wild ride for several parties, including the Ledcor Construction team, owner Ivanhoé Cambridge, the leasing team, the operations team and the mall marketing

team.GTC Public and Community

Relations Manager Petra Barker said mall staff themselves are rolling up their sleeves to help retailers with last-minute clean-up, unloading, unpacking and troubleshooting.

To make sure there are no hiccups in the system, the mall’s escalators have also been

overhauled and tested.GTC completed Phase 1 of the huge

project by adding a 149,000-sq.-ft. Wal-

mart Supercentre and a two-level parking structure, both in place as of Oct. 28, 2011.

A gradual third phase, to be completed in 2014, will include stores confi gured in the popular racetrack design.

“Everybody who works in this mall can’t wait,” said White. “We can’t wait for it to happen, but we know we’re not done when we open on August 28th because we’ve still got another 24 stores to go.”

When construction work is completed at the end of 2014, the centre’s gross leasing area will have increased from 980,000 to 1.2 million square feet, which will make it the largest regional shopping centre south of the Fraser River.

The redevelopment has created about 4,000 jobs during construction, and will

include at least 750 new permanent jobs upon completion.

White says that GTC business barely slowed down during construction, and expects it to double when the entire project is completed.

“I think it’s something that Surrey needs,” White said.

You’re invited!The grand opening of the Guildford

Town Centre expansion kicks off Aug. 28 with an offi cial ceremony at 9:30 a.m. in Centre Court. White is expecting upwards of 60,000 people throughout the day. There will also be entertainment over the Labour Day long weekend.


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‘We can’t wait for it to happen’47-year-old Surrey mall is completing a major expansion phase and is set to show off its new look on Aug. 28

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Guildford Town Centre General Manager Peggy White says the fi nal days before the shopping complex’s offi cial opening have been hectic, but exciting.

“I think it’s something that Surrey

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Giving Burnaby‘a run for their money’

Guildford Town Centre is now the largest shopping complex south of the Fraser

BY SHARRON HO

After nearly three years of ongoing construction inside and outside the mall, a major part of the

$280-million renovation of Guildford Town Centre will fi nally be unveiled to the public on August 28.

According to Peggy White, Guildford Town Centre general manager, the grand opening will reveal a new 16-unit food court with 1,034 seats, new escalators, elevators, updated decor, and a new parkade with 1,800 more spaces.

Seventy stores will also be introduced, including Disney Store, Forever 21, H&M, Aritizia, SEPHORA, Fossil and Guess.

The expansion itself will increase Guildford Town Centre by 213,500 square feet and reposition the mall as the largest regional shopping centre south of the Fraser River.

“We’re positioning ourselves as a regional shopping centre,” White said. “Metrotown is our sister mall and they have more stores than we do, so we wouldn’t

rival them, but we would certainly give them a run for their money.”

However, the grand opening does not mark the end of construction, as more improvements are expected for 2014.

Twenty-four more stores will open throughout 2014.

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By the numbers, Guildford Town Centre is the

city’s biggest job hubThousands work at the newly refurbished mall

BY SHARRON HO

Technically, Guildford Town Centre (GTC) can’t be called the largest employer in Surrey.

But when you add up the numbers, the mall is the city’s biggest job hub.

Peggy White, Guildford Town Centre general manager, said the shopping centre would be largest employer in Surrey if employees from all the tenants, shops and service providers were included in the calculation.

“But unfortunately, each individual one has to report separately,” she said.

Recently, even more workers came on board.

The GTC hosted a job fair on June 27 at the Sheraton Vancouver Guildford Hotel, which saw 2,500 people show up.

“It was attended very, very well,” White said. “It was busy all day.”

A total of 750 permanent jobs were created with the shopping centre’s expansion, which includes full-time, part-time, entry-level and management positions.

Aside from retail, the mall has also

been adding operational staff since the redevelopment fi rst launched in June 2010.

“We’ve had to increase our team over the years. It didn’t happen overnight,” White said. “As the construction evolved, the team got bigger.”

A total of nine security guards have been brought in, and 11 people have been added to the guest services and counter staff team.

Twenty housekeeping staff have also been hired to help sort through organic material for the shopping centre’s new compost recycling system.

“We’ll be taking all the organics out, so we’ll be diverting a lot more of our waste that way,” White said. “If you just think of the food court alone, having to sort our waste, the manpower to do that is huge.”

Throughout the redevelopment, nearly 4,000 jobs were created in the construction industry. When the mall expansion is open, the total number of full- and part-time employees working at GTC will number 4,000.

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Top: Crews fi nish the exterior of the Woodward’s building at Guildford Town Centre in October, 1966. The new shopping complex opened on Nov. 8, 1966.

Below: Job seekers in the personnel offi ce of Woodward’s in August, 1966.

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Seeing 3D at GuildfordMall home to largest living walls in North AmericaBY SHARRON HO

In addition to undergoing one of the largest shopping centre expansions in Canada, Guildford Town Centre is now

home to the largest “living walls” in North America.

The massive external living walls – vertical gardens made up of plants – were installed on the 104 Avenue overpass and measure approximately 10,000 square feet in size.

The wall which can be seen near 152 Street when travelling eastbound on 104 Avenue has been named Mountains and Trees, and the wall seen when westbound is Waves and Pebbles.

Mike Weinmaster, chief designer at Vancouver-based Green over Grey, the company that installed the panels, said they are among of the most biologically diverse living walls on the continent, featuring

50,000 individual plants representing 110 different species.

The exterior installation is just one of two in the world to have been placed over busy streets.

The outdoor walls are comprised of B.C. native plants, locally adapted species such as lavender, ferns and fl ower shrubs, and tastier variations like strawberries, cranberries, huckleberries and blueberries.

“Some of the larger plants will eventually grow six to eight feet out of the walls, meaning the art will become more and more three-dimensional as time goes on,” Weinmaster said.

There are also interior living walls, located in Centre Court. They measure 1,500 square feet and contain close to 10,000 individual plants of 60 different species. Greenery

used in the indoor walls include locally grown tropical plants such as banana and bromeliads – a member of the pineapple family.

The lush foliage provides environmental benefi ts, including improved indoor air quality and biodiversity.

“They also have been proven to help with the overall health and wellness of people,“ Weinmaster said, adding the walls also act as noise barriers and help with thermal regulation of the building by keeping the sun off the concrete.

While the walls are an innovative approach to decor, they are no more diffi cult to maintain than a traditional fl ower bed.

“The walls are maintained about once per month,” Weinmaster said

Care of the walls involves trimming back plants as they grow and removing dead fl owers and dust.

The exterior walls are maintained by a rolling scaffold system that was engineered so the walls could be maintained without

having to close the streets to traffi c below.

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Other ‘green’ features at GTC: • LEED Gold certifi cation for the shopping

centre’s expansion area by 2014. • Bicycle storage and change rooms for

retail tenants and staff. • A compost system in the food court. • Low-fl ow water fi xtures. • Internal systems upgrades that have

reduced energy consumption by 64 per cent and water use by 40 per cent.

• Charging stations and room for electric vehicles.

• All of mall property is non-smoking, including outdoors.

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The redevelopment of Guildford Town Centre has left behind a relic for future generations in the form

of a time capsule, buried deep in the expansion’s excavation site.

The time capsule contains a variety of different items relevant to the mall’s ex-pansion and reminiscent of today’s era.

The cache of goods includes coins from 2012, a letter from Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts to the future mayor and council, newspaper clippings, USB drives contain-ing creative material about the shopping

centre, catalogues featuring current styles, a history book of Surrey, and signa-tures of notable people.

Planted into the concrete pour, the time capsule was buried in the expan-sion’s foundation on March 2, 2012, and will be left there indefi nitely as a piece of history.

“It was buried deep down underneath the expansion in a big plexiglass tube,” Guildford Town Centre General Manager Petty White said.

“In this particular case, we put it under-neath there for people to fi nd many years from now – like hundreds of years from now. Just because it would be fun to fi nd something different.”

Inspiration for the time capsule came from the discovery of old Woodward’s food tunnels during the excavation of the expansion area. Woodward’s was the an-chor department store at the mall when it fi rst opened in 1966. The tunnels were once used to deliver groceries to vehicles several years ago.

“We thought it would be good to put something back, so someone else could fi nd it at a later date,” White said.

“It will never be opened by any of us, that’s for sure.”


Moving forward – leaving a piece of history behindTime capsule embedded in mall foundation for future generations


The Guildford Town Centre team hands a time capsule to Clarke Peters of Ledcor Construction Ltd.

Members of the carpenters’ union picket outsideGuildford Town Centre inSeptember, 1966. Thelockout delayed the opening date of the complex to November.The mall was originallyscheduled to open onAug. 31, 1966.

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Guildford Town Centre (GTC) is about to wrap up the second phase of a large-scale redevelopment.

The milestone brings to mind how vital Guildford has been in Surrey’s overall development, from sprawling rural municipality to vibrant and fast-growing city.

The area of Surrey where Guildford is located was once known as the Hjorth Road district, named after the road that is now 104 Avenue. Until the construction of the Port Mann Bridge and Highway 1 in the early 1960s, it was a Surrey backwater.

There was no commercial development. Properties were rural acreages, and there was just a scattering of residents.

However, the opening of the freeway made it far more strategic, and British developers Grosvenor-Laing believed that the area could support a shopping centre. The nearby freeway meant that customers could come from as far away as Chilliwack.

The plans for Guildford (the developers

came up with the name, based on Guildford in Surrey, England) were very ambitious. The developers envisioned a completely new city within Surrey, and some of it came to pass. There was the shopping centre, but there were also plans for residential development and community facilities.

Many apartments were constructed quickly, but there was little in the way of community facilities for quite some time. Surrey had already gone ahead with an ice rink in Whalley (the fi rst operated by the municipality) and there was not suffi cient population for an indoor pool in North Surrey at that time.

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On Aug. 28, the shopping centre will welcome the public to the offi cial unveiling of its new expansion, part of a $280-million redevelopment. When construction work is completed at the end of 2014, the centre’s gross leasing area will have increased from 980,000 to 1.2 million square feet, making it the largest regional shopping centre south of the Fraser River.

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• Walla Walla Onions• 6 kinds of Potatoes• Zucchini• Green Peppers• Broad Beans• Shallots• Scarlet Summer Beans• French Fillet Beans• Dill Weed• Rhubarb• Baby Carrots• Summer Squash• Vegetable Marrow

Available from ourAvailable from our OWNOWN Garden… Garden…

LOTS OF FREE PARKING! WE’RE OPEN SIX DAYS A WEEK FROM 9:30 A.M. TO 6 P.M. ~ CLOSED SUNDAYS

www.marysgarden.ca

We also carry MADE IN BC:• ALL KINDS OF FRESH FRUIT FROM THE OKANAGAN

AND LOCAL FARMS• Juices, Jams, Syrups, Honey, Local Salad Dressing

15649 40th AVE. SOUTH SURREY604-576-9297

LOTS OF FREE PARKING! WE’RE

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YOUR SOURCE FOR LOCALLY GROWN FRESH PRODUCE

We grow the widest range of fresh produce

picked daily in the Lower Mainland!


Driving Lessons

Surdel Drivers

School Ltd.provides integrated

in-car and classroom learning experiences.

All our instructors are approved I.C.B.C. Graduated Licencing Program

Instructors & Gov`t approved Driver Training Instructors. Our instructors coach students,

integrating learning through the classroom, the car and at home learning. Knowledge, Skills

and Attitude will provide new drivers with the tools to be a smart, skilled and knowledgeable driver for life.

Driving is 80% attitude, 10% knowledge and 10% skill.

Learning Centre – Offi ce212-8232 120th Street, [email protected] – 604-599-8767 www.surdeldrivers.ca

FREE Driver Classroom Education Lesson is FREE and is held every second Wednesday 6:30pm-8:30pm. Register today 604-599-8767 or [email protected]

www.creativekidslearningcenters.ca

Planting the Seed for Further Education™

Meet the New KidsOn the Block!Creative Kids Learning Centers is expanding and opening its eighth location in the South Surrey Morgan Crossing area! Our new center will be located at 15850 24th Avenue, Surrey, B.C.

Register Now! This brand new location will be offering the following programs, tailored for your

child’s precious early years;

Full day Childcare for tots (36 months to 5 years)

Full day Infant & Toddler care (2 months to 36 months)

Summer camps

Junior Kindergarten

Before & After school care providing transport to and from Sunnyside, White Rock Christian Academy and Star of the Sea.

Register by phone, online, or come by our

OPEN HOUSE, Saturday, August 31,

9am-12pm. See you there!

www.creativekidslearningcentres.ca | 604-560-5002

Welcome to Rosemary Heights Seniors Village. Our beautiful facility is located

in quiet South Surrey and offers both Assisted Living and Complex Care. Our

residents are enjoying an independent lifestyle; meeting new friends and relaxing

in their own bright, spacious suite with the added security of in-house personal

care services, if and when needed.



In 1965, in a construction site accident, a slab of concrete fell and injured two workmen. Despite the accident and a labour dispute with tradesmen the

following year, Guildford Town Centre was completed and opened in November 1966 – just two months after its originally scheduled launch.

Success after setbacksSURREY ARCHIVES PHOTOS

Proud to celebrate the Grand Opening of Guildford Town Centre!Upgrade for fall and visit us for all of your back to school/back to business needs.

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15291 Fraser Highway, Surrey

604-227-5583 Mon-Thurs 9am-9pm • Fri-Sat 9am-6pm • Sun 12-5pm

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π$5,000 Honda cash purchase incentive is available on select Honda vehicles. Honda cash purchase incentive will be deducted from the negotiated price before taxes and cannot be combined with special lease or fi nance offers. #Limited time 0.99% fi nance offer based on new 1013 Honda models and a 24 month fi nance term available only through Honda Canada Finance Inc. O.A.C. Finance example based on a new 1013 Civic DX model FB2E2DEX and a 48 month fi nance term available only through Honda Canada Finance Inc. O.A.C.: $16,935 at 0.99% per annum equals $189.19 bi-weekly for 48 months. Freight and PDI of $1,495 included. Cost of borrowing is $387.72, for a total obligation of $19,674.72. Down payment of $0.00, fi rst bi-weekly payment, environmental fees and $0 security deposit due at fi nance inception. Taxes are extra. Finance on approved credit for qualifi ed customers only. YLimited time lease offer based on select new 2013 Honda mod-els and a 24 month lease term available only through Honda Canada Finance Inc. O.A.C. Lease example based on a new 2013 CR-V LX model RM3H3DES and a 36 month lease term available only through Honda Canada Finance Inc. O.A.C.: 0.99% lease APR for 36 months O.A.C. Monthly payment, including freight and PDI, is $394.69. Down payment of $0.00, fi rst monthly payment, environmental fees and $0 security deposit due at lease inception. Total lease obligation is $14,208.84 Taxes, license, insurance and registration are extra. 72,000 kilometre allowance; charge of $0.12/km for excess kilometres. **MSRP is $36,630 / $27,630 / $31,630 / $25,630 including freight and PDI of $1,640 based on a new 2013 Pilot LX YF3H2DE / CR-V LX RM3H3DES / Odyssey LX 5AT RL5H2DE / Accord LX CR2E3DE and $16,935 / $16,075 based on a new 2013 Civic DX FB2E2DEX / Fit GE8G2DEX including $1,495 freight and PDI. Y/π/#/ π π Dealer may sell for less. Dealer trade may be required. For all offers license, insurance, applicable taxes and registration are extra. Offers valid from August 1st through September 3rd, 2013 at participating Honda retailers. Offers valid only for British Columbia residents and BC Honda Dealers locations. Offers subject to change or cancellation without notice. Terms and conditions apply. Visit www.bchonda.com or see your Honda retailer for full details.


WE’RE READY TO BE

AUGUST 28

H&M

GUESS

BENCH

FOSSIL

DISNEY STORE

JUSTICE + MORE

Located at 104 Ave & 152 St 604-585-1565 GuildfordTownCentre.com

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THE NEW GUILDFORD TOWN CENTRE DEBUTING AUGUST 28

Find our coveted mix of stores and our spectacular food court in a beautiful new setting. It all adds up to an irresistible shopping experience. We’re positive you’ll fall hard and fast for the new GTC.

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