List of shopping malls in Toronto

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The following is a list of malls in Toronto, Canada. The first enclosed shopping mall in Toronto was the Toronto Arcade in Downtown Toronto. The first shopping mall of the enclosed, automobile-centred design type was Yorkdale Shopping Centre, opened in 1964. For shopping malls surrounding the city of Toronto, please see the template at the bottom of this article.

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Major shopping centres[edit]

These shopping centres each have over a hundred stores and are anchored by multiple department stores. They are also the five largest malls in Toronto. Each provides thousands of automobile parking spaces. With the exception of Sherway Gardens, all of these malls have direct pedestrian connections with the Toronto subway and RT, though Sherway Gardens has bus connections through the Toronto Transit Commission and MiWay of Mississauga.

Name District Major intersection Subway/RT connection Retail space (m2)
Fairview Mall North York Don Mills Road—Sheppard Avenue Don Mills 81,874
Scarborough Town Centre Scarborough McCowan Road—Highway 401 Scarborough Centre 121,467
Sherway Gardens Etobicoke The Queensway—The West Mall None 91,045
Toronto Eaton Centre Old Toronto Yonge Street—Dundas Street
Yonge Street—Queen Street West		 Dundas
Queen		 159,979
Yorkdale Shopping Centre North York Allen Road—Highway 401 Yorkdale 130,496

PATH underground shopping mall[edit]

In Downtown Toronto, primarily in the Financial District, there are interconnected shopping malls located one flight of stairs underground. The complex as a whole is named 'PATH'. The Toronto Eaton Centre is connected to the complex. The complex has 1,200 stores, and the PATH is the largest underground shopping complex in the world with 371,600 m2 (4,000,000 sq ft) of retail space.[1]

District or neighbourhood shopping centres[edit]

The district or neighbourhood level of shopping centres in Toronto are typically built around one or a few department stores or grocery supermarkets and are enclosed. These shopping centres typically provide a surrounding free parking lot. Most of these are located in the former suburbs of Toronto, where land was available for parking. There are only three shopping malls of this type within Toronto's pre-1998 city limits: Galleria Mall (at Dufferin Street and Dupont Street), Dufferin Mall (on Dufferin Street south of Bloor Street), and Gerrard Square (on Gerrard Street east of Pape Avenue).

Malls located within major office buildings[edit]

One configuration of shopping mall in Toronto is the self-contained type located within a commercial office building, sometimes around a central atrium. This type typically does not provide a surrounding parking lot. These malls typically house from a dozen to several dozen stores. Most of these are connected to a station of the Toronto subway system. In certain cases, such as the Hudson's Bay Centre, the mall exists only to connect the department store to the Toronto subway system at Bloor-Yonge station.

Open-air shopping plazas[edit]

Open-air shopping plazas are larger collections of stores built with surrounding parking areas, with parking spaces separated from the storefronts by sidewalks. These shopping centres generally serve the local surrounding area and have a large proportion of family-run businesses, some of which are ethnic.

  • Chartwell Plaza (Brimley Road and Huntingwood Drive), Scarborough
  • Dragon Centre (Sheppard Avenue East and Glen Watford Drive), Scarborough
  • Dufferin & Steeles Plaza, North York
  • Dufferin Business Centre (Dufferin Street between Castlefield Avenue and the former York-North York boundary), York
  • Iranian Plaza (Yonge Street between Cummer Avenue and Steeles Avenue), North York
  • Peanut Plaza (Don Mills Road and Van Horne Avenue), North York
  • Sheppard Plaza (Sheppard Avenue West and Bathurst Street), North York
  • Sunnybrook Plaza (Eglinton Avenue East and Bayview Avenue), East York
  • Tam O'Shanter Plaza (Sheppard Avenue East east of Kennedy Road), Scarborough
  • Victoria Terrace (Victoria Park Avenue and Lawrence Avenue East), North York
  • Whiteshield Plaza (Kennedy Road and Lawrence Avenue East), Scarborough

Power centres[edit]

Power centres mainly consist of major national and international big-box stores with large amounts of parking space separate from the stores themselves and serve a larger area than the open-air shopping plazas do.

Flea markets[edit]

The markets are housed indoors with stalls of independent vendors.

  • Downsview Park Merchant's Market, Downsview Park (Keele Street and Sheppard Avenue West), North York
  • Jane Finch Flea Market, 1911 Finch Avenue West (Jane Street and Finch Avenue West), North York
  • Dr. Flea's, Highway 27 and Albion Road, Etobicoke
  • Merchant's Flea Market, 1921 Eglinton Avenue East, (Warden Avenue and Eglinton Avenue East), Scarborough
  • Toronto Weston Flea Market, Old Weston Road and St. Clair Avenue West, Old Toronto

Dead malls[edit]

The following are malls with minimal tenants and awaiting demolition or re-development.

Former shopping malls[edit]

The following shopping malls have been demolished or closed. Some have been replaced by new strip plazas or re-developed for non-retail uses:

  • Morningside Mall (1979–2002) at Morningside Avenue and Kingston Road, Scarborough - The indoor mall[2] was demolished to make way for outdoor big box plaza called Morningside Crossing[3]
  • Rexdale Plaza (1957-2004), Islington Avenue and Rexdale Boulevard, Etobicoke[4] and enclosed 1972. Most stores closed by 2003 and demolition of south end in 2004 with north end of mall retained (with Asian supermarket a few small stores). Since 2004 south end redeveloped as an outdoor mall with Wal-Mart Supercentre as stand-alone store.
  • Warden Woods Mall or Warden Power Centre (1970–2005) at Warden Avenue north of St. Clair Avenue East, Scarborough[5] was a full mall and later as clearance centre. It has since been demolished and replaced with low-density residential development.
  • Weston-Finch Mall (1960s-2006), Weston Road and Finch Avenue West, North York - former strip mall (with Zellers, Canadian Tire and McDonald's as tenants) and later as outlet facility; demolished 2006 and vacant lot[when?] awaiting redevelopment for condos.
  • Westside Mall, Eglinton Avenue West west of Caledonia Road, York - replaced with a power centre of the same name during the early 2000s (with Canadian Tire, Rogers, FreshCo and CIBC as major tenants).
  • Strip mall on Sheppard Avenue West east of Weston Road - now site of Westown residential development.

See also[edit]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ City of Toronto - PATH facts
  2. ^ http://www.felixkalmenson.com/files/gimgs/42_historicize-pdf.jpg
  3. ^ http://westhillnews.blogspot.ca/2007/11/morningside-crossing.html
  4. ^ Urban Exploration Resource
  5. ^ Urban Exploration Resource
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