

The new development (The Doyle) across from Halifax Central Library, I have heard they have scooped UK retailer OASIS from Halifax Shopping Centre. Ther will be a top floor 360° all glass restaurant and now I hear it will be home to a new larger Lululemon.

Booster Juice will be replacing the recently closed Sunwich Cafe, amongst the clothing stores in Dartmouth Crossing.

Cha Baa Thai is coming to North End Halifax; they will be opening in Point North, the new building across the Demone St for the Lion’s Head

CheeseCurds has opened their latest location in Clayton Park on Lacewood where FlipBurger was, the Habanero’s counter won’t be open until next month

PizzaTown opens the first of their new concept of restaurants, this one is a few doors down from their current on Cobequid Rd. They are adding TV’s and beer and such and more seating.

Bedazzled in Sunnyside Mall closes at the End of April

Reitmans announced it will be closing all it’s Hyba stores over the next 11 months but will continue to carry the brand in their main stores. The only local Hyba store is in Scotia Square

Another week another Pannizza closes, last week the Halifax Shopping Centre location closed and this week its sister location in Scotia Square did the same.

The Canadiana in Bayers Lake is now done, supposedly when It is all done there will be a different restaurant on top of this



The Dalhousie Association of Graduate Studies has permanently closed the Muse Cafe (formerly The Grad House)

Bib n Tucker has now closed.

Rockbottom.deals has closed their Sackville Dr store

Dartmouth Yarn’s is now closed

Gweilo, Sea Hawgs and U-Pick-Fish have now closed a quick reno, and a single window called Fish and Chix will be open on Wednesday, beside Cheese Curds on Windmill.

Earth Goddess who got displaced from their first home on Kaye St. Will open their new shop on Saturday on Demone/Robie beside Attica

The ReFound Shop has rebooted, the eclectic little Thistle Street store is becoming a collective of Thinking Outside The Box, What, These Old Things? Oddjects, Garth Goldsmith and David MacLean

This week a shout out to Kitchen Door Catering who every Wednesday night have a Facebook Live where they bring local guests in for a cooking show called Chit Chat Chop and they talk about what they do as they prepare a dish (they are all available to watch afterwards as well) It’s really great to see locals talking locals and working together



The Rec Room announced that they are opening in St. John’s in the Avalon Mall. The Cineplex owned entertainment centre, and restaurant (arcade, entertainment, pool tables, watch the big game) I believe will also announce a 30k sqft facility to be built in Dartmouth Crossing

It was 20 years ago that Wormwood’s Dog An Monkey Cinema closed, and Halifax could still use a replacement full-time independent movie theatre.

This is interesting; I hear starting today both our Costco‘s are using Nova Scotia’s own Eden Valley for their fresh chicken supply! And Eden Valley will be their primary supplier for all the Atlantic Canadian stores in the coming months.