Vancouver-based Terra Breads has signed a 10-year lease for a new café that will open in July and face both the main plaza at the Village on False Creek and the waterfront.
Owner Michael Lansky told Business in Vancouver February 25 that he planned to open a 2,100-square-foot café and sell his well-known artisan breads and bakery items at 1605 Manitoba Street.
“I think it’s a good location,” Lansky said. “The Village is going to develop into a wonderful community, a vibrant community. It’s important to have Vancouver businesses like ours in there.”
Lansky opened his first bakery in Kitsilano in 1993 and then added a location in Granville Island in 1995 and one on West 5th Avenue in 2005.
The West 5th Avenue café and the one on Granville Island have bakeries but the one in the Village will just be a café.
Much of Lansky’s revenue comes from retailing his bread and other baked goods through dozens of stores in grocery chains, such as:
- Nesters Market;
- Capers Community Market; and
- Urban Fare.
He would not reveal what percent of his revenue comes from his cafés as opposed to other sales channels.