Pen Centre
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Location | St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada |
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Address | 221 Glendale Avenue |
Opening date | 1958 |
Management | 20VIC |
Owner | Cushman & Wakefield |
No. of stores and services | 180 |
No. of anchor tenants | 4 (2 open, 2 in process of redevelopment) |
Total retail floor area | 1,036,696 sq ft (96,312.2 m2) |
No. of floors | 1 |
Parking | 5000 |
Website | The Pen Centre |
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The Pen Centre (originally The Niagara Peninsula Shopping Centre) is the largest mall in the Niagara Region, located in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
History
Opened in 1958,[1] The Pen was at one point the fourth largest mall in Canada,[2] with over one million square feet of floor space. Located next to the Highway 406, it features over 180 stores, a major department store, a supermarket, a ten-screen movieplex, and several large format anchors.[3]
Famous Players opened the first SilverCity 8-screen multiplex cinema at that location on November 7, 1997. It is now owned by Landmark Cinemas.
In 2011, the mall began a $13 million renovation of the common space, including 3,600 sq. ft. of new skylights, a new food court, floors and ceiling treatments.[4] The renovations were completed in 2012.[5]
The mall previously housed several large retailers:
- Sears (194,611 sq ft.) Closed its store in January 2018.
- Eaton’s (converted to mall space in the late 1990s)
- Target (126,690 sq ft.)[6] - Vacated spring 2015. - Formerly Kmart and Zellers. The space is now currently occupied by a Walmart .
Target announced that it was opening a store in the Pen Centre’s former Zellers location in 2013. Just over a year later, in April 2015, Target shuttered all of its Canadian stores.[7] Later in 2015, the location was sold to Walmart Canada[8], which began construction on a newly revamped building in February 2018, and opened on August 22nd, 2019[9]. Sears closed its store along with all other Canadian stores in January 2018[10] [11], and as of June 2018, it is not yet known who will replace the former Sears store space.
See also
References
- ^ http://www.20vic.com/cms/wp-content/themes/20vic/leasing-pdf-generator/retail.php?id=286
- ^ http://thepencentre.com/pages/thepencentre-history
- ^ http://www.20vic.com/cms/wp-content/themes/20vic/leasing-pdf-generator/retail.php?id=286
- ^ http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/2011/03/10/pen-centre-to-undergo-13m-interior-renovation
- ^ http://thepencentre.com/pages/thepencentre-history
- ^ 20Vic floor map
- ^ http://www.ctvnews.ca/business/target-leaving-canada-losing-money-every-day-1.2189973
- ^ https://www.thestar.com/business/2015/05/08/walmart-buys-13-former-target-canada-stores.html
- ^ Walter, Karena (2019-08-23). "Long-awaited Walmart opens Pen Centre doors". StCatharinesStandard.ca. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
- ^ http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/2017/10/13/sears-closures-122-niagara-jobs-to-be-eliminated
- ^ http://cfcanada.fticonsulting.com/searscanada/docs/Liquidation%20Sale%20Approval%20Order%20(Phase%20II%20Liquidation).pdf