A year after HBC’s collapse, some reimagined spaces — and a lot of vacant stores

A year after HBC’s collapse, some reimagined spaces — and a lot of vacant stores

Four days before Christmas, shoppers lined up around the Bay Centre in Victoria, B.C., where a corner of the mall had been transformed into a scene reminiscent of a London high street.
In the windows, animatronic bears and groundhogs in aprons

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