Major Asian Supermarket coming to Winnipeg

Supermarket slated for old arena site
By ROSS ROMANIUK, Winnipeg Sun

September 23, 2010


The site of the long-gone Winnipeg Arena will see an Asian supermarket spring up by the end of next year, the property’s developer says.

Shindico Inc. plans to begin building the 45,000-square-foot food market late this year and have it ready to open by late 2011 as the retail anchor of a wider 200,000-square-foot commercial development at the site between Maroons Road and Rapelje Avenue, development manager Bob Downs told the Winnipeg Sun on Thursday.

Downs declined to name the market, saying only that it’s a company that will be new to Winnipeg.

Radio station CJOB, meanwhile, is among the future tenants of the existing former CTV studios at the south end of the site.
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My money is T&T Supermarket, targeting Winnipeg's growing Asian population. This store is very popular in Edmonton and Calgary with their respective Asian (mostly oriental) populations, and will likely be the same in Winnipeg. Good news.

Lucky just came here and is doing gangbusters... and no appreciable drop in other stores. not sure though that we could absorb another major one without some impact.

I was shopping awhile back in the Chinatown secton, and the Asian maret stores there are pretty huge. I wonder if all the locals will travel out there to buy? Are Asians allowed to leave the core area to shop elsewhere?

i can see it doing quite well.

if you haven't been to the polopark area recently...the stores are often flooded with asian people.

with the Filipino population adding 10k people per year to the province...and thousands of Chinese & Indian, the demand is certainly there.

Plus the new asian market that opened near McPhillips & NotreDame is consistently packed with customers...especially on the weekends (good luck finding a place to park). They may take a hit in business...but judging from the number of people in there on a Saturday morning...they may welcome the loss of chaos.

It would be nice to see more Asians in the Polo Park area.

I love some of the Asian foods available including the dumplings, sticky rice and several dim sum dishes. Be nice to buy them fresh.

Kick. Ass. I LOVE T&T. Maybe they're just catering to the booming Vancouver influx....

6 people is an influx?

I just recently met a couple who relocated to Winnipeg from Chilliwack, their daughter is in my kids kindergarten class.

JTF wrote:6 people is an influx?

6 people?

Hey...I'm sorta' kidding...I'm always chuckling about our fantastic growth rate in Manitoba...

well, i remember reports that in 2008, there were 10k filipino immigrants alone to Winnipeg
I don't know the numbers for the others

i also know when my daughter started school last fall, the school was big on native/aboriginal studies and seemed to have a history of aboriginal kids being the majority of students.

we just went to an open house last night, and i'd say at LEAST 50% of the kids there are filipino, and that there's actually a pretty good mix of various ethnic backgrounds

being only a short way from PoloPark, the numbers have definitely increased in the few years since i moved here.

AGEsAces wrote:

...we just went to an open house last night, and i'd say at LEAST 50% of the kids there are filipino...

being only a short way from PoloPark, the numbers have definitely increased in the few years since i moved here.

It would be nice to see more Asians in the Polo Park area.

Goth_chic wrote:I just recently met a couple who relocated to Winnipeg from Chilliwack, their daughter is in my kids kindergarten class.

That's creepy. WE just moved from Chilliwack. My kid is the same age as yours. I tell you, we're coming to take over.

Actually, there are quite a few people from YVR eyeing YWG because of the better prices here and allegedly bountiful work in TV/MOVIE industry.

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That's creepy. WE just moved from Chilliwack. My kid is the same age as yours. I tell you, we're coming to take over."


maybe its a stalker..

Or, maybe I'm the stalker. I did hear of other settlers from Chilliwack that had hitched up their wagons for the great Manitoba Land Rush of TwentyTen, but I didn't know them personally. Everyone seems to have a cousin's uncle's step-sister's neighbor that has moved out here recently. "And they really love it!!!!!!!!"

Yes. Because once you get past the biblical plagues of wasps, mosquitos, floods, leaning houses, sub-zero weather, and pot holes the size of Mongolia, Winnipeg is a great place to live.