There are still Loblaws around? We had one in the sixties and I have not see one since then. OMG!

How cool is that! So glad they preserved a component of the Gardens! I hope they keep that unfinished look on the wall. A nice homage to the once great hockey arena!

Looks as if the conversion is not exactly complete yet, lol. Wonder if they thought the garish blue bow would distract people from the unfinished wall and ceiling. Didn't work for me. :-)

Please tell me their CEO's name is Bob Loblaw, and that he has a law blog...

Great photo! Gives a great sense of the hustle and bustle of the holidays :)

Just to give this picture a little more perspective -- Loblaws occupies about one third of the ground floor, and it is huge. Katharine, that is not a bow on the wall, it the actual blue seats saved from the original arena shaped into a blue maple leaf, our hockey teams emblem.
Ryerson University occupies the rest of the building for their sports centre. The second floor has various courts for volley ball, squash, etc, and there is a NHL sized ice rink on the third floor, just under the dome.
We have several Loblaws in TO this size, and larger.

OK, Henry Louis, thank you for educating me about the blue seats and maple leaf, etc.

I still think it looks like a bow, but I guess no one ever said that making a maple leaf out of blue arena seats would necessarily be easy. :-)

I wish people were compassionate about old things becoming new, in the US.