‘I want to achieve something big': Billionaire mall owner Weihong Liu reveals plans for old Hudson's Bay leases
A children's play zone, an Asian supermarket, a bustling food court. B.C. billionaire Weihong Liu has revealed new details about her plan to assume more than two dozen Hudson's Bay leases, and what she has in mind is nothing like the legendary department store Canadians once knew and loved.
Clutching three Hudson's Bay employee training manuals from 1938, Liu, the petite Chinese entrepreneur, seated in a restaurant at the downtown Toronto Marriott Hotel on Tuesday morning, said in a rare in-person interview with the Star that she understands why the iconic Canadian retailer closed its doors — and that she knows the secret to building something new and successful.
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