{"id":811463,"date":"2026-07-19T04:27:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T04:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/811463\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T04:27:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T04:27:53","slug":"new-gateway-mall-owners-hope-to-bring-in-a-costco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/811463\/","title":{"rendered":"New Gateway Mall owners hope to bring in a Costco \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/98628497-812c-41a9-8606-1d6b291edef5-1.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Pictured are the new owners of Gateway Mall and staff. Lou Alrifai is in the middle wearing the orange shirt. (Image Credit: Susan McNeil\/paNOW)<\/p>\n<p>By Susan McNeil<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to bring in players that don&#8217;t exist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJul 17, 2026 | 4:30 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The new owner of Prince Albert\u2019s Gateway Mall is hoping to revive the mall and add to the tenant list by bringing in some big players, like Costco. <\/p>\n<p>Lou Alrifai was on site on Friday and said he believes the mall has a good future if it is managed better. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Alrifai said the former Sears space, which he described as about 60,000 square feet and empty for roughly 12 years, is one of the areas where a larger tenant could fit.\u00a0The mall itself is approximately 324,000 square feet and considered the largest enclosed mall in northern Saskatchewan. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to bring in players that don\u2019t exist, like Costco, and services that I think Prince Albert needs so we can become a target for the population around,\u201d Alrifai said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pictured are the new owners of Gateway Mall and staff. Lou Alrifai is in the middle wearing the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":811464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-811463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}