Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 2, 1975, Winnipeg, Manitoba Finance saturday August 2. 1975 sticking to affluent ways real reason for . Woes by Eliot Janeway consulting economist affluence As usual has remained the order of the Day in the United states during these recent months of hard times. Somehow acting As if nothing has changed has taken the form of a new cover up on the financial front. But something has changed. To be precise about it. Two circumstances of life have changed. The first is that Many people Are running out of Money the second is that All governments Are. Take new York City. The problem there seems to be that the City has run out of Money. If it were nothing More serious. New York City would be in pretty Good company considering All the other big names which have run out of Money since the Start of the present siege. But the real difficulty goes deeper. It is emotional and philosophical rooted in the Promise that the affluent Way of life would never be interrupted. Garbage is one of the fundamental ingredients of mod Ern Community living. In a simpler Day. It re fertilized the soil and fed the animals. In the better world waiting to be engineered it will again play a productive role Recy cled into alcohol and buried along with gasoline in the carburettors of automobiles. But in new York s present crisis Over Money and lifestyles the routine Job of moving garbage has built up into More than a burning Issue. It has surfaced into a commanding Symbol of the real problem whether to re Cognize that something has changed or to insist that Noth ing has. New York City s Union of sanitation workers ended its recent protest strike against layoffs on a weekend. When the members of the Union chosen to do the emergency clean up Job reported for work they insisted on collecting overtime. The wonder of it was that As Good Union men they accepted it while thousands of their fellow workers remained on layoffs. The overtime Money did not come from the City trea sury in the usual , the Union leadership used funds in the Union Treasury to buy a Bond which raised the Cash for the overtime payroll. Morally it was a trick Cash belonging to All the Union members was diverted to pay for a privilege to some of them while the rest were denied any consideration whatever. Politically it was a fiction it worked As an elaborate charade to preserve the scenery for the status quo. The incident was not an isolated one. All the Munici pal employees unions Are playing out a charade of hold ing out for pay increases even though their problem is staving off layoffs. New York s conscientious mayor. Abe Beame was outraged to discover squads of nonessential clerks with civil service status provocatively leaving work before the contractual quitting Lime of 4 . They were going out of their Way to prove that nothing had changed. The City itself has been setting its employees an indulgent example. The first payroll it missed last june was overloaded with the routine summer vacation prepayment to teachers. Soon after the default scheduled for August the City will be called upon to come up with a whopping million payment to fund future year retirement for City workers whose Back pay it is no longer Able to Bor Row. The government of new York City is not that unrepresentative. The businesses in the City Are still indulging affluence As usual too even those which Are in trouble. The biggest business in new York is real estate it is also the sickest. New York City s real estate operators have been having As much trouble borrowing the payroll As the City fathers. In fact one reason the City is busted is that its real estate operators have fallen so far behind in paying their property taxes. But new York City s real estate men seem to prefer being busted to changing their ways. They have lost their credit but they arc clinging to the indulgence of the four Day week. Their chosen lifestyle leaves them with More Leisure time in which to worry about their bad debts and Back taxes. Sharp business growth predicted for City s second biggest shopping Centre and promotions manager Rob Knight left and shopping Centre manager Doug Rennie examine drawings on site of uni City fashion Square. Or. Rennie believes the Complex will get off the ground much faster than the usual shopping Centre. By Wally Dennison Bright flashy and Gla Yourous with probably a stronger fashion selection than any shopping area of Winnipeg. That s How manager Doug Rennie views the million uni Eity fashion Square opening this month on the North por Tage Avenue Between Knox and David streets in West Winnipeg. Us 40 acres will make it Winnipeg s second largest shopping Centre. Polo Park covers 55 acres. I think it s go nig to be quite a Many or. Ronnie said of the first major shopping Centre to be opened in Winnipeg since the Garden Complex made its debut in August 1970. I feel uni Eity fashion Square will get off the. Ground much faster than the usual shopping Centre. Normally it takes a few years for the population to catch up with the shopping development. But uni City s line of business growth on a graph should turn out to be much sharper than1 the gradual Rise of most centres. Because we re located in the fastest grow ing part of the City a real family area that re minds me of what River Heights was like 15 years ago. We actually had to. Move buy Homes off the Winnipeg s shoppers Are hungering for something War. Rennie said pointing out that four shop Ping centres had gone up in Calgary and three in Edmonton during the last five years. When the Bay unveils its two level Square foot department store aug. 13 in uni Eity fashion Square it will be just one Day past five years since the Garden City shopping Centre began operating. S the Bay will be the Only store doing business on the site for two weeks. Another 40 to 45 of the 77 stores and services to be located at uni Eity will open their1 doors aug. 27. Or. Rennie said. Most of the remainder will open As they re completed during september he said. Woolco the other Lull line department store to Anchor the site will Likely open its one Storey 146.000 Square foot facility in the latter half of september or. Rennie said. A Square foot Dominion supermarket will provide a third Anchor. Altogether Square feet of merchandising area will be available. Accommodation also will be provided for More than cars. More than 12 acres will be occupied by buildings with approximately five acres of landscaped berms and treed areas. The landscaped berms on three sides of the shops not Only will be act Heally pleasing to area residents but will also function As a noise Barrier or. Rennie said. Uni Eity fashion Square he said offers a unique merchandising concept based on a Central Square with six malls leading to major retailers. Promotional material has filled the enclosed air conditioned Complex As the Gateway to a new shopping the Square is like a wheel with spokes leading out in six Miv Ronnie explained. The malls Are the spokes and they will result in a much better circulation of shop per traffic than other shop Ping centres. Every retailer there fore will have a Good Loca v about 10 stores he pointed out will Hub of the Centre s merchandising activity will be the stunning Glass domed Square 240 feet across and 26 feet High or. Rennie said. The huge skylight will provide natural illumination night and Day to in Shahee the atmosphere. Eight .20-foot ficus. Trees will furnish a Lush Green setting or. Rennie said. Ceilings of stores throughout the Centre Are being varied at Heights of eight 12 and. 14 feet in order to emphasize the 26 foot High Central Square he noted. In the Square itself will be a dozen individually de signed Light filled arid free standing shops. Some will be tubular to be walked through. Some will be Cir Cular to walk around some curved to be walked into but. Each will be designed to its particular Merchan dising function. In the Middle the Square will be a children s play area with their very own theatre. Parents5 can shop while the children Are entertained. Shops surrounding the Square will be specially arrange d to offer each Corner stove exposure t o the Square. The Merchan dising concept of grouping t h e stores by function around and projecting into the Square will provide people with an exciting experience i n shopping or. Rennie stressed. T h e Brown and beige striped ceilings of the six malls will provide striking visual effects As the colors reflect off the Glass lined Walls he said. The striped mall ceiling pattern and the 10.000 Square feet of Glass throughout the Complex accent uni Eity Square s emphasis on elegance and the manage r said. Well known retailers in the development will in clude Baia shoes Birks Black sheep boutique b u s t e r Brown Canada Trust Coles books color your w o rid conless d Allaird a Fairweather Francines Gray s apparel Jack Fraser Jean Junction Kinney shoes Light ing unlimited the loft Mappin s jewellers Mcdonald s restaurant Mon to e a 1 draperies Orange Julius Peoples jewellers Rickis Sam the record Man second look Bouti que s h a i n o a Sterling shoes Stewart n. King strains cameras Sweet 16, Thrifty a tip top tailors villager shoes Windmill toys. The Orange Julius store will be Manitoba s first. An exceptional feature will be a warm and inviting gourmet fair surround ing a Lush landscaped Gar Den setting or. Rennie said. The Garden court Yard will include Trees and shrubs with domed Glass ceilings and spacious land s c aped pedestrian walkways interconnecting the major the Garden courtyard will contain tables sealing about 200 people. Here shoppers can Dine after making their food selections at any of the 11 out lets featuring a variety of ethnic dishes. The gourmet food fair will highlight Winnipeg s ethnic flavor or. Rennie said. Another distinctive at traction will be a Telephone shop operated by the Mani tuba Telephone system he said. The first such shop in Manitoba it will be one of Only about a half dozen similar Telephone system operate d enterprises in Canada according to a Manitoba Telephone sys tem spokesman. Customers will be offered the Gamut of contemporary styles and colors and be Able to take the stylish phones Home for self installation if their dwellings have been equipped with special jacks and plugs the spokesman said. For guidance in Selec Tion drawings in the shop will show How the Tele phones might look in Dif Ferent rooms. The Telephone system will begin installing the special attachments this fall in the residential area near uni Eity fashion Square the spokesman said. The Szorc probably will open in november. People like the he said. Stores in the United states Are drawing great numbers of people with Many driving Long distances to View the in Community organizations will be encouraged to use uni Eity fashion Square for promoting their activities or Rennie said. The Complex will be Winnipeg s first truly regional shopping he said. We Hope to attract peo ple from All parts of Winnipeg but we expect most of the Money will be made from purchases by people in this Section of the like most shopping centres uni Eity will gear its Appeal primarily to the 20-to-45 age group but it s especially blessed by its p r e s e n c e in Winnipeg s most dynamic growth area or. Rennie said. Between 1956 and 1971, the Popula Tion in the City s St. James a s s i n i b o i a area had skyrocketed by 110 per cent compared to a growth rate of 30.8 per cent for All of Winnipeg during the same period. Today the primary Trad ing area of the St. James Assiniboia Tuxedo and chaise Wood sections of the City contains a shopping population of More than 100.000, or. Rennie said. With the secondary Trad ing area the total Market exceeds 200.000. Sales to t e n t i a 1 for department store Type merchandise for the total trading area has tic Bay will its new 120.000 Square foot store aug. 13 at uni Eity fashion Square been projected to increase from almost s55 million in 1974 to More than Mil lion in 1984. Or. Rennie who Man aged shopping centres in. Saskatoon and Calgary be fore returning to his native Winnipeg last february observed that Winnipeg has traditionally been a Down town oriented city1 for shopping. But a tremendous change has occurred Over the four years i was away. Downtown in t nearly As Strong now. J from the transportation standpoint uni Eity fashion Square has Good Access from All directions. We re particularly accessible to the country and we expect Many Rural customers. People from Portage la Prairie for example can drive 2s Miles and avoid having to go right into heavy traffic. It would be h i g h w a y travel All the tourist Trade also should be highly profitable be cause of the excellent transportation links he said. The primary Trade area is about seven minutes driving time from the site while the secondary Trade area is 15 minutes by car or. Rennie said. Just one Quarter mile West of the Centre is the perimeter Highway one of North America s finest peripheral Highway systems. Completely surrounding Winnipeg the perimeter h i g h w a y will create a Bonus population for the uni Eity fashion Square Market. Or. Rennie said. Shoppers from St. Vital and fort Garry be Able to drive South to the perimeter Highway and then West and North to the Centre on Portage Avenue. They can Complete the trip in about 15 minutes driving at fio mile an hour com pared to the 45 minutes required to Resh other competitive facilities b y driving through the City. Service wiil be. Extended so the Centre from both sides of the Assiniboine River. Or. Ren nip Essiri. A Ness bus will terminate at in icily and a a Hugiie i will operate to and from Dale and Robiin boulevards Over the Perim Eter Highway to serve the Charleswood area. For its opening aug. 13, the Bay has contracted with metro transit to pro vide free bus service from 9 . To noon throughout the City. We want to make it easy for anybody in the City to find out How to get to uni Eity fashion said r. M. Drin Nan the Bay s sales pro motion manager. Cutting the ribbon at the Bay s store opening Cere Mony will be Dorothy Dre Witt who has been in Cleri Cal and managerial Posi Tion s at the company s downtown store for almost 49 years. She will be assisted by a. R. Murray Gener Al manager of the Central Region of Hudson s Bay company. A distinctive feature of the new suburban store will be a Canadian Buffet or. Drinnan said. He said the Branch store would have the usual ser vices featured downtown such As a photo studio travel Bureau and optometrist. Greater emphasis than would be observed Down town will be Given to Chil d r e n s Wear women s sports Wear and hardware and sporting goods or. Drinnan said the Bay s new outlet will be open . To . Monday to Friday and . To 6 . Saturday. Construction of t h c Centre began in late july 1974. About 300 workmen have been involved. Between 700 and 800 full and part Lime workers will b e employed when the Centre is completely occupied. Uni Eity fashion Square is a joint venture of tristan Western limited the Hud son s Bay company developments limited and com Merce capital properties limited. The developing partner tristan Western limited is a subsidiary of Triec corporation limited North America s Lead ing real estate Developer. Triec equities limited is managing the Complex. The contractor is hash Man construction of Cal Gary a division of tristan Western limited. Architects Are Abugov and Sun Derland. Also of Calgary. The associate architect is Roy m. Lev. Of Winnipeg. Security Industry expands As break ins increase v a n c 0 u v e r up various police departments in the greater Vancouver area say the incidence of breaking and entering is increasing. It s no Surprise then that the Security Industry also is expanding. Sales of Security systems in the area Are expected to be about so million this year compared with about s1.5 million seven years ago. Security systems Are As varied in their operation As they arc in Price. There Are systems costing about to be installed plus a monthly service fee. Which link the customer to a Central Monitor system. If such premises arc broken into police can be on the spot five to Cist minutes. The system covers entry through Normal Means door and can also include either pressure sensitive devices Ultra sonic equipment or Micro wave detectors thai can warn of intrusion Vith Tivit the in re Irr knowing. While of this sort of equipment awl service mainly Are to businesses Many residents Are looking for better to protect their Homes. Police in Richmond a municipality South of Vancouver said there were s62 break ins in 1974 compared with 621 in 1973. In Coquitlam burglaries Rose by 11.4 per cent to 731 in 1974 from 565 the previous year. There were 9.556 incidences of breaking and entering in Vancouver in 1974. Down two per cent from the in 1973. Value of property involved last year was More than s3 million. One Security expert said there Are four is people should remember Dis courage deny Access detect entry and delay it s discouragement which is the main weapon for a said join Ben Nett assistant Branch manager of the Chubb Mosier and Taylor Safe division of Chubb industries Ltd. If a would by burglar find that the Householder has taken care to install decent locks on door am hell probably move on to an or. Bennett said. Amazes me is she number of houses cinc built in the s5q.ooo to Ranje which have j10 locks on the rotors and cheaper ones on the windows. If a builder spends just a few dollars More he can increase these purity of the House a Hundred one of the most sophisticated locks available was devel oped by the schlage lock company. The key is an electronically encoded Vinyl card. To open the lock the key is placed within four to six inches of a sensor usually built into the Wall near the door. The sensor sends a Mes Sage to the Central control unit and if the key is authorized to unlock the door at thai particular time the door opens. If not. The door re Mains locked and an alarm can sound. The owner can. If desired have a Printer thai automatically records at what time a particular door was opened and by what key. If an authorized key was used this information also is recorded. Not ail Security arrange ments Are to prevent crib or. Monitoring systems also watch heating plants air Condit Ionina. 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