Westfield, May Set to Begin M&F Expansion at Vancouver Mall

VANCOUVER, WA-Meier & Frank will indeed expand its presence at Westfield Shoppingtown Vancouver, according to local sources in contact with a real estate official with May Company, which operates the Meier & Frank department store chain.

Ron Rasmussen, chairman of the Van-Mall Neighborhood Association, tells GlobeSt.com that Vincent Corno from the May Co.’s real estate division in St. Louis, Mo. told him last week that May and Westfield had just reached an agreement in principal and that the design should be complete in May and construction should get underway in August. Corno could not immediately be reached for comment.

Rasmussen says 30,000 sf will be added both the first and second floor of the store and after that a staged redesign of the entire department store will occur. Construction will be stopped during the holiday shopping season.