A numbered company owned by the man who is the majority shareholder of the Fields stores purchased the Kamsack Shopping Plaza last month from Craig Tysowski of Kamsack.
Jason McDougall, CEO of Fields, who had acquired the majority interest in the company from the Hudson Bay Company in 2012, said last week that he is now looking to fill the mall with tenants.
“I’d like to make the mall a meaningful part of the community again,” McDougall said, adding that the existing Fields store in the shopping plaza will be expanding and he has another tenant looking at occupying space.
This only leaves the former grocery store space left to fill, he said. Tysowski, who is leasing the Toro’s Restaurant, will be functioning as the company’s “eyes and ears” at the facility.
McDougall, who was born and raised at Liberty and now works from the Fields office in Delta, B.C., said he will be in Kamsack on a day between August 7 and 20 when he plans to host a town-hall event, meeting with residents and inquiring what the store could do to be a good corporate citizen of the community.
The Kamsack Fields outlet is one of 10 such Fields stores in Saskatchewan and one of 62 outlets in Western Canada.
