Business

A second Zellers pop-up store is slated to open in Victoria this month

Just in time for the holidays!
Clipper Ferry Victoria

Near miss: Victoria Clipper comes to agreement and avoids strike ahead of long weekend

If they didn’t agree on anything they would be on strike.

Victoria Airport Authority hires developer to begin working on 129-room hotel

On the corner of Highway 17 and Beacon Avenue West.

Peninsula Co-op purchases seven Liquor Express retail locations on Vancouver Island

6 are in the Greater Victoria area.

Tacofino will be opening a brand new location in Langford later this year

Brace your taste buds! 🌮🎉

Workers of Quadra Village liquor store successfully bid for unionization

They want better pay and conditions.

‘Façade beautification’ program may allow downtown Victoria businesses to clean up storefronts

$50,000 would go to businesses sprucing up their spots.

Zellers returns to Victoria and Nanaimo as a pop-up this August

Get ready to unlock those childhood memories!

Mayfair’s new ‘drop and play’ centre for kids is a parent’s dream

Say goodbye to the days of tantrums and bored kids!

There’s a brand new directory highlighting Indigenous owned businesses in Victoria

Over 50 diverse businesses are on it so far!

Carlton Club’s space is back up for grabs after last tenant didn’t pay rent

The building is expected to be demolished in late 2024.

‘It’s pretty much just bad news’: One of Victoria’s last video rental stores announces...

A petition has been started to have GVPL buy the collection.

Toys “R” Us officially announces they are moving into Uptown Shopping Centre

In the old Forever 21 location!

Owner of Toys “R” Us to open new venture in former Bed Bath &...

The new store will be called ‘rooms + spaces’.

You can now get soft-serve ice cream year round at Uptown

Softys permanent location opened today! 🍦

Victoria staple Capital Iron to reopen its iconic doors this September

In its original location!

‘We made it’: HAVN Harbour Saunas docked permanently at Victoria’s Inner Harbour (PHOTOS)

They will be open to the public beginning June 1st!

‘You can’t hold art down’: Victoria entrepreneur advocates for artists through creator studio

In need of a place to create? Look no further. 📸🎥🎶

Victoria-based Black entrepreneur launches bold new community-focused brand

Bringing Malian culture to the city!

Vancouver Island’s We Wai Kai Nation announces business venture with Starbucks Canada

The collaboration is the first of its kind in the country.

11 women-owned businesses in and around Greater Victoria

In celebration of International Women’s Day!

9 restaurants in Greater Victoria have closed so far this year; here’s why

And we’re only two months in…

7 homegrown products you might not know came from Vancouver Island

Homegrown and locally-owned!

You could own this downtown Victoria café and juice bar for only $78,000

All the espresso and smoothies you could ever dream of. ☕🥤

Country Grocer expanding with purchase of decades-old grocery chain

In 4 different communities.
BC Transit Bus Lane

These 12 Vancouver Island businesses made BC’s Top Employers list for 2023

Along with 120 more businesses across the province!

Bed Bath & Beyond to close all Canadian stores including Victoria location

No closing date has been set.

A new Australian-themed rolling cafe will be coming to Victoria’s Clover Point Park

They’ll have vegan baked goods too!

Victoria mural artist paints over smashed window covering for downtown retailer

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade! 🍋🎨🖌️

Three Vancouver Island restaurants make Yelp’s Top 100 Places to Eat

Have you checked them out?

Maritime Museum receives $1 million donation from Victoria woman’s estate

This will help with their move to Steamship Terminal.

Victoria’s Bateman Gallery set to leave Steamship Terminal after 10 years

The Maritime Museum will take its place.

Asian grocer H Mart set to takeover former Toys R Us space at Mayfair

It'll be the first location on the island.

Sidney-based baker opens new shop just months after going out of business

Sidney Scones is here to stay!

Owner says window smashed at downtown Victoria clothing store ‘part of a bigger problem’

“People don’t go smashing windows for nothing.”

‘Not affiliated in any way’: New restaurant opens in former Chuck’s Burger Bar location

They have no ties to Chuck’s or Lumberjack’s.

ICBC president and CEO departs position to take over same role at BC Ferries

He was with ICBC for nearly two decades.