Sunterra Market’s location in Bankers Hall has expanded to double its size to meet the growing demand in the downtown core.

The food vendor has recently gone through a facelift at the company’s retail location which opened in 1990 and now included a licenced seating area as well as an expanded culinary offering.

“It’s not just a renovation, it’s an entire replacement, rejuvenation, and redesign,” said Glen Price, Sunterra Market’s President. “We’ve had to remove virtually everything that was there and we didn’t cut any corners — we’ve gone all-out to come up with a fantastic, expanded space.

“We’ve created this larger space to be really functional at every point in the day. But it’s about making sure the customers are taken care of and that they’re excited about the products they’re getting and the interaction they have with our team members.”  

The company has six locations in Calgary and two in Edmonton.

Sunterra’s first location was in southeast Calgary in May 1990 in the Avenida shopping centre. The Bankers Hall location opened in December of that year. 

“In Bankers Hall, we’ve basically doubled our size. We were about 3,800 square feet prior to the redevelopment and now we’re about 7,200 square feet. Bankers Hall has always been a fantastically successful location for us and was really our first very successful location,” said Price.

The downtown anchor will still serve hot breakfast, lunch, and dinner, provide takeout options, and offer a robust menu of cooked-and-cooled grab ‘n’ go meals. The European-style big pans and bakery will continue to be a major draw, but Sunterra Market & Café in Bankers Hall has added several new offerings:

  • A new, considerably larger salad bar that will include stations for hot cooked meats to add on;
  • Made-to-order pizzas cooked in a new forno oven from Italy;
  • A brand-new coffee bar that will feature handcrafted Lavazza espresso-based drinks;
  • Genuine Tea products;
  • Chefs will also make pasta from scratch in the market; and
  • Rotisserie meats and piadina thin-crust sandwiches which are currently only available at the Kensington Road location. 

“We took the space down for full redevelopment. Basically we (demolished) the entire space . . . We stayed true to a bunch of the really successful concepts and offerings that we had within the space but obviously with the extra space we can handle customer traffic better and with the extra space we’ve been able to add some very unique and new concepts,” he said.

“It’s really set up well to have really great offerings for every end of the day.”

Mario Toneguzzi is a business reporter in Calgary.

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