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Postby newsposter » Sun Sep 10, 2006 9:10 am

Latest Updates February 2010. Also see the link: www.fashioncentral.ca

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Macnaghten Block undergoes magnificent restoration

David Parker
Calgary Herald

Thursday, September 07, 2006

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CREDIT: Jenelle Schneider, Calgary Herald
David Neill, president of Encorp Management, stands in front of the renovated Macnaghten Block.

The hoarding came down earlier this week on a renovated building that will add a very attractive new store front to Stephen Avenue. The Macnaghten Block at 207 8th Avenue S.W., directly across from The Bay, was built by rancher Francis Macnaghten in 1907 and has housed some long-term tenants like Kolbs Cafe for more than 20 years and Sterling Shoes for 15. More recently, it was home to the Rose Garden Thai Cafe that has relocated a block east on the north side of the avenue...

The building itself has no outside walls of its own; the west brick is shared with the Leeson-Lineham Building while the east wall forms the Hull Block. Originally built with two floors, a fire destroyed the upper level of the Macnaghten and for the past many years has remained a single storey. Neill has built a new roof and carefully replaced timbers to form a mezzanine floor halfway down the deep length of the building and restored the borrowed brick-side walls down into the basement area that will be reached by a new set of stairs. But he is leaving what remains of a interior lofty old painted sign that reads "& Jobbers --A benefit not a habit chewing" -- an advertisement for gum.

Biggest change is with the shop front that has been transformed with glass soaring to 26 feet high, a modern design that fits so well as a contrast to the older facades.

Neill also owns the Hull Block and the Alberta Block that stretch to the corner of 1st Street S.W. His next project will be to begin work next February to restore the brick columns that used to rise from street level to the roof of the Hull and renovate it for new usage.

Encorp is the family company that is responsible for the restoration of the Alberta Hotel and Clarence Blocks and developed the Jubilee Block at the corner of 7th Avenue and Centre Street into Arts Central that today has 56 tenants and a waiting list for its studio spaces. The heritage of downtown has benefited greatly by it.

Full story: http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/new ... 86d65f40cb
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Postby newsposter » Fri Aug 31, 2007 1:22 pm

Building Fashion in Calgary
Calgary Herald
Published: Friday, August 31, 2007

Calgary fashion is no longer the oxymoron it used to be, but there's still a long runway to walk before we truly arrive. It helps to have spaces like Fashion Central in the works. Like sister project Art Central, Fashion Central is a restoration effort by Encorp Management, slated to occupy three adjacent buildings at the corner of Stephen Avenue and 1st Street S.W. The whole shebang won't be finished until 2009, but the first stage is ready for its close-up as the site of a special boutique, open during the Downtown Calgary Spot On Fashion festivities, September 4-8.

See above for more on the future of these historic buildings ^
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Postby newsposter » Wed Sep 05, 2007 9:45 am

Big names in fashion coming to Calgary
Louis Vuitton a candidate for Fashion Central

Mario Toneguzzi, Calgary Herald
Published: Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Three historic downtown Calgary buildings are undergoing a multimillion-dollar complete restoration and renovation to eventually house Fashion Central, which officials say will have 24 retail spaces, including some street-front stores targeted to international retailers new to the local market.

Encorp Group (Art Central, McNally Robinson, etc - newsposter) is spearheading the unique redevelopment at the corner of Stephen

Avenue and 1st Street S.W., which includes the Macnaghten Block, the Hull Block and the Alberta Block buildings. The retail spaces will range in size from 400 to 6,800 square feet and will be ready for occupancy from spring 2008 to fall 2009.

Rest of story at this link:
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/new ... d8407a8594

David Parker article, also Sept 5, 2007

http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/new ... bf006526e3
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Postby newsposter » Tue Oct 23, 2007 4:14 pm

More about Fashion Central planned for the historic Alberta Corner of 8th ave and 1st street SW.

http://www.ffwdweekly.com/article/life- ... you-freak/
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Postby newsposter » Tue Mar 18, 2008 9:24 am

http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/new ... 6e70f9e0db


Fashion incubator to nurture fledgling designers

Joanne Sasvari
For The Calgary Herald


Tuesday, March 18, 2008


Sleek yet rustic, modern yet retro, the Macnaghten building was the perfect space for Calgary fashion designer Lara Presber to shoot her architecturally inspired Fall 2008 collection.

"It's an interesting mix that's really polished, but it's still got these rough elements," she says.

You could say the same for Calgary, a city that is going through a seemingly endless financial and cultural boom, and the growing pains that go with it.

Now the Macnaghten -- with its vintage tile floors, exposed sandstone walls and a sweeping, industrial staircase -- is at the heart of a project that has come to represent everything the future could be.

The project is called Fashion Central, and while it comprises a major bricks-and-mortar renovation scheduled for completion in fall 2009, it is already more than that to the city's growing community of designers.

"There's a hunger here for people to bring art and fashion and culture together," says designer Jodi Opsahl, the fashion-leasing representative for the project.

Fashion Central is the brainchild of the Neill family, who also created the phenomenally successful Art Central concept a few blocks away.

At Art Central, galleries, studios, cafes and boutiques share a space -- and a lifestyle community -- that attracts an eclectic crowd of shoppers and browsers.

Among the tenants at Art Central are a handful of local designers who, president David Neill says, are the project's most successful tenants.

"There's quite a developing community of fashion designers in the city and they don't have a proper outlet," Neill says. "What we're doing is creating a place for them that is not too expensive, where they can create and display their designs."

To that end, the Neills' company, Encorp, is repurposing three heritage buildings at the corner of Stephen Avenue Walk and 1st Street S.W.: the Macnaghten Block, the Hull Block and the Alberta Block.

"I think we have the hottest corner in Calgary for sure," Opsahl says.

The three buildings will be combined into one connected space housing a number of local and international designers; the big names (who are still to be finalized) will be on the main floor facing trendy, pedestrian-friendly Stephen Avenue Walk.

"They'll pay much higher rent so they will essentially be subsidizing the local designers on 1st Street and the interior of the building," Neill says, noting that they already have about a dozen local designers eager to rent space in Fashion Central.

But Fashion Central won't be just about having a studio or storefront. It will become an incubator of sorts, a resource centre where designers can find fabric suppliers or get help with financial issues.

As Opsahl says: "The creative side is natural for all of us, I believe, but the business side is not innate."

Already, Fashion Central has become an important supporter of the local scene. It provided space for last year's Calgary Fashion Week, when the project was first announced. And it's helping designers like Presber, seeking space and assistance in presenting their collections.

"It's exciting for us designers," Presber says. "It gives you something to look forward to. It makes me want to invest more in Calgary, to be based here as opposed to flying the coop."

The Neills wouldn't be going ahead with Fashion Central if the timing wasn't just right. They'd already tried a similar project once, about eight years ago, but found there weren't enough local designers to support it.

Since then, though, the Alberta College of Art & Design introduced its wearable art course, Olds College amped up its fashion program and such local designers as Paul Hardy and Evalina Schmidtke have found international success despite staying at home.

At the same time, Calgarians are demanding more and better fashion options, which is why the luxury retailer Holt Renfrew is undergoing a massive renovation and expansion just a few blocks west of Fashion Central (also scheduled for Fall 2009).

"People travel so much, and you have such an influx of foreigners now (whether they're from Toronto or China)," Presber says. "Their expectations are so much higher for what architecture should be, what fashion should be, what restaurants should be."

And a large part of that means supporting homegrown talent.

"I think this is the first step to establish a fashion community in the city," Presber says. "It's creating an excitement and an awareness in the city."

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For More Information

To learn more about Fashion Central, go to fashioncentral.ca or call Encorp at 403-543-9900.

To learn more about the Calgary designers mentioned in this story, go to the following websites:

- jodiom.com for Jodi Opsahl's yoga and leisure wear label Jodiom

- larapresber.com for Lara Presber's upcoming fall collection of fashion and accessories

- evalinacouture.com for Evalina Schmidtke's bridal and evening wear

- paulhardydesign.com for Paul Hardy's vintage-inspired collection of day and evening wear.

© The Calgary Herald 2008
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Postby newsposter » Tue Mar 18, 2008 9:28 am

Herald article March 18 above ^

Excellent new website for this project:

http://www.fashioncentral.ca/
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Postby newsposter » Tue Oct 21, 2008 3:33 pm

Upscale retailers find their niche in Calgary market
Fashion Central to feature high-end stores on Stephen Avenue
Mario Toneguzzi, Calgary Herald
Published: Sunday, September 28, 2008

http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/new ... e1660c3ad5


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...David Neill, president of Encorp Management Inc., has seen that potential for a number of years.

That led to the company's development of Fashion Central in the downtown at the corner of Stephen Avenue and 1st Street S.W., across the street from the Bay.

"Calgary really has become a world-class city," he says. "We're now known as an international city."

"We've had a tremendous influx of people, a highly educated population and lots of high-income earners," says Neill. "So we're really a different city than we were a few years ago and that is influencing things like The Core (TD Square-Calgary Eaton Centre) and the Chinook (Centre) expansions. And the downtown, of course, is where the majority of the high-income workers work, so there's a great opportunity for retail, restaurants, arts and things that address this."

When completed, Fashion Central will have 28,000 square feet of retail space in three historic buildings. The buildings will include seven street-front stores. The interior of the complex will be similar to the Art Central building, across from the downtown Hyatt hotel, with an atrium and a skylight.

Fashion Central's street-front stores will be high-end retailers. The inside will house smaller outlets, about 20, for local fashion designers and independent retailers. It's expected to open in October 2009.

One very high-end fashion retailer, new to the Calgary market, has signed a lease, says Neill, but he could not reveal who it is.

"Ten years ago in Calgary, this would have been a hard sell. It no longer is," says Neill.

Jodi Opsahl, fashion leasing representative for the project, who has lived in New York, Montreal and Los Angeles, says "the bar has been raised in Calgary" for high-end retailers.

"There's been so much growth in the city. There's a younger group of people with high incomes moving here from places like Toronto, Ottawa and Vancouver," she says. "People have shopped at high-end stores when they've been away travelling. Now with the growth in the market, they will be able to do that level of shopping in this city."...
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Postby newsposter » Tue Sep 01, 2009 1:07 pm

News of Fashion Central in the renovated Alberta block and area...

Historic buildings fashioned in style
David Parker, Calgary Herald July 28, 2009

http://www.calgaryherald.com/life/Histo ... story.html
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Postby newsposter » Sun Dec 06, 2009 4:57 pm

More and more businesses are opened at Fashion Central as Xmas 2009 approaches... this will continue to roll out over the next few months as more of the project is opened up. This promises to be a very popular adaptive re-use of heritage buildings and a real asset to Stephen Avenue. Check out the latest on their website.

http://www.fashioncentral.ca/
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Postby newsposter » Thu Feb 04, 2010 8:53 am

Fashion Central grand opening today.

http://www.calgaryartsdevelopment.com/node/2043

Fashion Central's grand opening celebration takes place during First Thursday, the Cultural District's monthly cultural crawl, on February 4th from 5-9pm (2010). Located in the Cultural District at Stephen Avenue and First Street SW, the retail complex will sell unique, contemporary and cutting edge fashions of both recognized designer brand stores not typically found in shopping centres, and local and Canadian designer boutiques. The project contains seven street-front shops and eighteen interior units and is the project of Encorp, the developer behind Art Central.
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Postby newsposter » Thu Feb 11, 2010 9:56 am

Some articles about the opening of Fashion Central:

Fashion Central finally swings open doors - columnist Kelly Doody
Calgary Sun, Feb 4 2010
http://www.calgarysun.com/life/columnis ... 46561.html

Fashion Central makes Calgary debut
Calgary Herald, Feb 5 2010
http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/F ... story.html
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Postby isabellabrown » Mon Apr 05, 2010 9:42 pm

Fashion Central is a new very-high-end fashion clothing hub in downtown Calgary, housed in one of the historic buildings along Stephen Avenue. They unveiled the interior for the first time in public view, there were certainly lots of people checking it out..
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Postby newsposter » Mon Jan 31, 2011 2:22 pm

First anniversary party of this successful adaptive re-use on Feb. 3 2011...

http://fashioncentral.ca/events/fashion ... hday-party
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Allied Properties REIT purchases Calgary Heritage Buildings

Postby cjane » Wed Aug 17, 2011 7:36 am

The Allied Properties REIT, after beginning their foray into the Calgary heritage building market with their purchase of the Lougheed Building, has acquired a number of additional properties including Fashion Central, Arts Central, and the Alberta Hotel Building.

The REIT also owns Kipling Square (601 10th Ave. S.W.), the Telephone Building (119 6th Ave. S.W.), the Bang & Olufsen Building (129 8th Ave. S.W.) and the Keg Building (603-605 11th Ave. S.W.)

Read more: http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/A ... z1VITCTzGm
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Neill family legacy

Postby cjane » Mon Sep 19, 2011 12:05 pm

After significant investment and redevelopment by Encorp, Arts Central, Fashion Central and the Alberta hotel were recently purchased by the Allied REIT. These historic buildings are legacies of the Neill family's passion for heritage preservation and adaptive reuse, and all three are now destination sites in downtown Calgary.

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