MEC announced plans to open two new stores in the Calgary during the next three years. Opening first, in fall 2018, a 30,000-square-foot location (21,000 retail) in Seton Urban District, south-east Calgary. Roughly six months later, in 2019, a west Calgary location will open in the Trinity Hills development within the new community of Medicine Hill.
The new south Calgary and west Calgary stores will complement the Co-op’s existing 10th Avenue store in the Beltline and enable MEC to better serve its 350,000-plus members in the area. Building and supporting the outdoor community in southern Alberta, and inspiring and enabling people to be active will be primary goals of the new stores, just as they are at MEC’s existing location downtown.
MEC CEO David Labistour said, “Since the Co-op first opened in Calgary in 1977, MEC has been an integral part of the outdoor community and literally hundreds of thousands of members’ adventures – close to home, in the mountain parks and beyond. These two new stores, Calgary South and Calgary West, promise to support many more adventures in the future, and be more accessible to members who live in those areas of the city.”
Located at the 365-acre mixed-use Seton development next to Deerfoot Trail and near the new South Health Campus, the south Calgary store will feature a comprehensive assortment of products for the activities MEC supports: camping, climbing, hiking, cycling, running, fitness, yoga, paddlesports and snowsports. Services will include a full-service bike and ski tech shop, as well as equipment rentals and bike fitting stations. Like the main Beltline store, a community room will be available for use by local outdoor clubs.
MEC’s west Calgary location, spanning 27,000-square-feet, will provide members with a similar product and service offering, as well as a community room and extensive event programming. The store will be adjacent to Canada Olympic Park within the Trinity Hills development. It will provide convenient access to more than 17 kilometres of hiking and biking trails within the community and the City of Calgary’s new regional park on Paskapoo Slopes.
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