Grosvenor Ambleside Announces New Retail Tenant: Established West Vancouver Restaurateur, Unveiling New and Exciting Concept

WEST VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - April 13, 2016) -

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Grosvenor Americas is pleased to announce the arrival of a new restaurant concept by Earls Restaurants. Opening at Grosvenor Ambleside, Grosvenor's highly anticipated mixed-use development in West Vancouver will open late 2017. The new restaurant concept will be the first of its kind in Canada, offering guests a reinvented dining experience in a new style of restaurant from the people who invented upscale casual dining. Says Earls CEO Stan Fuller, "It's everything you know and love about Earls, but nothing you would expect."

The Canadian-owned Earls (owned and operated by the North Shore's Fuller family) is one of North America's most successful independent restaurant groups with 66 locations across the US and Canada, their most recent opening in Chicago. The Fuller family are active members of the community with over five decades of strong ties to the North Shore, establishing their first restaurant, and head office, there in 1984.

Mo Jessa, President of Earls Restaurants Ltd., shares more about the exciting new concept. "It's been in design for over 3 years, and we are thrilled to unveil it at Grosvenor Ambleside. It's the future of Earls, a collective of individually compelling restaurants. We are unchaining the chain restaurant." The restaurant's local ties, commitment to conscious sourcing & sustainability, as well as stylish design & architecture fit perfectly with the community-driven retail vision that Grosvenor is committed to delivering in their Ambleside development.

Grosvenor held a series of Ideas Fairs during the entitlement process for Grosvenor Ambleside and heard from hundreds of West Vancouver residents and businesses about what they wanted to see on the 1.9 acre site located on the 1300 block of Marine Drive. The community's input helped inform the retail vision for the re-development of the gateway site which is to provide a mix of quality retailers and amenities to match the unique lifestyle of West Vancouver. It was important that the retail experience encourages vibrancy throughout the day, and welcomes the community back to the waterfront and a revitalized Ambleside. Grosvenor's vision is to contribute to the Ambleside neighbourhood without changing what people love about it. Earls is the start of realizing on that vision and will act as an extension of the already active Ambleside Village.

"Grosvenor Ambleside is a living village with a mix of carefully designed retail and public spaces. We intend to amplify what's working and provide what is missing to Ambleside" shares Michael Ward, Senior Vice President of Development and General Manager for Grosvenor's Vancouver office. "Grosvenor Ambleside will be a catalyst - reinforcing Ambleside's position as a vibrant and creative community place connecting the community to the waterfront."

A variety of boutique shops and services will complement Earls' new restaurant concept at Grosvenor Ambleside, where 100 individually designed homes are thoughtfully terraced over one six-storey and one seven-storey concrete building joined by a glass covered galleria. The public galleria will create a new pedestrian path from Marine Drive to Bellevue Avenue, providing a view corridor and access to the beach and seawall. Grosvenor Ambleside will showcase the best in West Coast architecture, art and culture including five sculptures by renowned West Vancouver artist Douglas Coupland and performances programmed by Kay Meek Centre for the Preforming Arts.

About Grosvenor Americas

Grosvenor is active in some of the world's most dynamic cities. With a presence in Vancouver for 63 years, Grosvenor has developed some of the city's most exciting residential, retail and mixed-use properties. For nearly 340 years, Grosvenor Group has invested in the shaping of the urban landscape which helps create and manage attractive and vibrant cities in which people choose to live and work.

Grosvenor Americas aims to become a market leader in select geographical areas and sectors in Canada and the USA through focused, strategic expansion. Grosvenor Americas uses its knowledge of the cities they work in and their property skills to develop projects that contribute to the vibrancy and attractiveness of those communities. The company currently operates in Vancouver, Calgary, Washington, D.C., Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles and has specific interest in retail, residential condominiums and apartments, and mixed-use sectors.

For more information, please visit www.grosvenor.com.

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